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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.

George Herbert

Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
GEORGE HERBERT

Body Pain Wine
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Burden Know Understand Weight
When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Mirth Needs Sin
God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Medical Physician Thank
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Fear Grief Money
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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Assurance Master Pay
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Long Rope Wait
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Another Feet Half Straw
Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Medicine Mony People Ready
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Cheerful Encouragement Positivity
Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Attend Men World
It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Egg Hard Shave
He that staies does the businesse.
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Busines Gather People Staiies
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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Fishing Jew Pot Wine
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Fat House Keeper
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Fire Soldier Water

Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.

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