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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.

George Herbert

Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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All Good Mora Sure
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Poor Reason Weigh
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Fear Grief Money
Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Brabling Need
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Beauty Borrowed Flame
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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Bees Eye Lose
He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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Friday Sing Sunday Week
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Bread Estate Two Wallet
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Make Mill Paire Wind
It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Bow Fish Rule Sure
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Distance Envy Greatness
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Atheism Atheist Devil
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Dust Flesh Mortality
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Age Example Need
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Good Make Pig Shaft Tail
Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Fire Ship Water

Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.

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