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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

George Herbert

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
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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Dog Fire Nut
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
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Beauty Husband Lover Poor
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Discontened Easie Men
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Make Mill Paire Wind
The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Children Love Smell
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Distance Envy Greatness
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Need Patience Speak
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
The offender never pardons.
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Forgiveness Literature Pardon
Good workemen are seldome rich.
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Good Rich Work
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Children Father First
He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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Angry Feast Rude
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Age Example Need
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Bee Honey Sweet

Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

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