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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

George Herbert

Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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Fool Hour Wit
Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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Angel Sunday Think
Anothers bread costs deare.
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Bread Cost Dear
Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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May Spring
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Absent Dead House
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Needle Past People Thread
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Cutt Steel Tongue
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Bee Gain May Steal
Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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Country Hath People
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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Body Pain Wine
A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Payment Penny People Twice
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
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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Beauty Flame Light
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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Lying Perish Trust
The cholerick man never wants woe.
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Cholerick Men Need Woe
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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Fair Ready Window
Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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Dead Give Restore
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Master Parent Requite
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Fat House Keeper
The scalded head feares cold water.
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Cold Fear Water
Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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Gratitude Thankful Thanksgiving
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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Courtesy Desire News
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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Land Sea Settle
Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Salt Smell Taste
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
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

Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

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