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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

George Herbert

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Deception Feet Physicians
The life of man is a winter way.
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Men Way Winter
Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Ears Hearing Little
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Children Morsel Own
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Brest Side Squrres
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Gold Hands Lost
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Broken Ill Look Ustom
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
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Cheerful Encouragement Positivity
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
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Bone Dog Swallow
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
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Another Feet Half Straw
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
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Dry Slander Tempest
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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Fishing Jew Pot Wine

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