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A penny spar’d is twice got.

George Herbert

They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Always Boot Ready
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Fire Soldier Water
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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Beauty Flame Light
It’s not good fishing before the net.
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Catch Fish Good Net
Trust not one night’s ice.
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Ice Night Trust
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Cure Frenzy Jealovsie
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Master Parent Requite
Conversation makes one what he is.
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Conversation Make People Success
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Eat Greedy Horse
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Dust Flesh Mortality
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Drowned Length Swimmer
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Foul Horse Stalk
Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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Need Occasion Require
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
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
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Come Hen Scrape

A penny spar’d is twice got.

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