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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.

George Herbert

Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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Good Hard Newes
He that burnes most shines most.
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Buriesm Most Emotion People Shine
Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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All Good Mora Sure
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Blame Peter Saint
I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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King Loss Spring
The way is an ill neighbour.
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Ill Neighbour Way
The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Children Love Smell
A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Payment Penny People Twice
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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Lying Perish Trust
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
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Folly Grief House
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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End Lasts Particular
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
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Deception Feet Physicians
An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Choak Myself Upbraided
He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Pay People Surety

In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.

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