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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Better Health People Suffer
He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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Emotion Much Spaniard
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Compromise Fat Lawsuit
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Make Mill Paire Wind
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
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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Night Wisdom Wise
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Good Make Pig Shaft Tail
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Brest Side Squrres
Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Ears Hearing Little
The scalded head feares cold water.
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Cold Fear Water
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Fire Soldier Water
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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Deed Honor Ill
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Mean Solitude Use
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
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Fear Grief Money

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