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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.

George Herbert

Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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Dead Give Restore
A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Payment Penny People Twice
The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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Deeds Wise
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Cutt Steel Tongue
The offender never pardons.
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Forgiveness Literature Pardon
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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Lying Perish Trust
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Blame Peter Saint
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Mean Solitude Use
Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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Astrology Find Matter People
Anothers bread costs deare.
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Bread Cost Dear
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Long Rope Wait
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
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Gold Hands Lost
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Married Men Stake
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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Good Hard Newes

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