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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

George Herbert

We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Age Example Need
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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Call Chuse Olives
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Honest Thieves Thunder
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
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Law Morning Night
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
When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Mirth Needs Sin
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Live Well Well
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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Assurance Master Pay
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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First Fool Wedge
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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Food Smell Taste
All that shakes falles not.
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People Shakefall
There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Men Remedy Thing
Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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Everyone Fault Time
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Mean Sky Success
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Foul Horse Stalk

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