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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

George Herbert

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Mean Measure Run Year
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Bee Honey Sweet
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Men Miserable Pennies
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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Call Chuse Olives
Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Better None People Servant
An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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Deed Honor Ill
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Cutt Steel Tongue
Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Astrology Find Matter People
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Lying Reason Spurs
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Ask Book Sounsell
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Compromise Fat Lawsuit
Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Land Ocean Sea
Where there is peace, God is.
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God Life Peace
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Long Rope Wait
He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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Emotion Much Spaniard
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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Land Sea Settle

Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

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