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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

George Herbert

You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Make Mill Paire Wind
When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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Gate Hell Lackey
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Mean Solitude Use
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Gentle Heart Love
Trust not one night’s ice.
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Ice Night Trust
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Fat House Keeper
They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Always Boot Ready
When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Hell Openth War
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
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Little Own Patient
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Cheerful Encouragement Positivity
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Fear Grief Money
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Giving Soul Sweet
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Law Morning Night
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Come Hen Scrape
Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Attend Men World

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

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