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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
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Honest Thieves Thunder
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Beauty Husband Lover Poor
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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Bees Found Rivers
The life of man is a winter way.
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Men Way Winter
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Beauty Borrowed Flame
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Foul Horse Stalk
We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Enough Soon Wells
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Gold Hands Lost
An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Choak Myself Upbraided
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Long Rope Wait
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
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Bees Know Spy
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Another Feet Half Straw
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 offender never pardons.
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Forgiveness Literature Pardon

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