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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.

George Herbert

Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Better Health People Suffer
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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First Fool Wedge
We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Enough Soon Wells
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Master Parent Requite
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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Fortune Great Misfortune
It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Betetr Horne Wing
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Drowned Length Swimmer
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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End Furthest Thinke
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Foul Horse Stalk
The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Children Love Smell
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Poor Reason Weigh
Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Attend Men World
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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Food Smell Taste
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Mean Solitude Use
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

Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.

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