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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]

George Herbert

Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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End Lasts Particular
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Beauty Husband Lover Poor
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Drink Frog Gossip Talk
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Know Shoe Wear Wring
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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Morning Night Soul
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Gold Hands Lost
Conversation makes one what he is.
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Conversation Make People Success
All that shakes falles not.
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People Shakefall
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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Land Sea Settle
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Folly Grief House
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Lying Reason Spurs
Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Land Ocean Sea
Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Fire Ship Water
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Compromise Fat Lawsuit
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Door Enter House Leave
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

Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]

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