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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.

George Herbert

Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Gentle Heart Love
Music helps not the toothache.
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Help Music Toothache
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Door Enter House Leave
To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Age Need Treasurer Youth
When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Hell Openth War
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Ask Book Sounsell
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Beauty Borrowed Flame
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
He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Betimes Rise Some Thing
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Alcohol Drink Glass
Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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Fool Hour Wit
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Fasten Gaine People
In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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Bottom Swim World
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Giving Soul Sweet
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Folly Grief House

Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.

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