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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]

George Herbert

We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Age Example Need
A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Payment Penny People Twice
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Fine Ill Littles Wrapt
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Discontened Easie Men
Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Fire Ship Water
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Brest Side Squrres
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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Body Pain Wine
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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Book Gains Need
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
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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Encounter Goeth Hath
He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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Emotion Much Spaniard
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
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Lying Reason Spurs
Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Salt Smell Taste
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Confidence Inspirational Sport
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mean Sky Success

Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]

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