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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

George Herbert

Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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Debt Grow Rich
It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Bed Dangerous Fire
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Know Shoe Wear Wring
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Beauty Borrowed Flame
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Deception Feet Physicians
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?
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Body Pain Wine
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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King Void Years
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Children Father First
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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House One People Trust
When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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Gate Hell Lackey
Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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Fool Hour Wit
Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Fear Hope Path Right Wrong
Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Ears Hearing Little
Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Ever Himself Look Well
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Absent Dead House
Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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Need Occasion Require

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