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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.

George Herbert

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Horse Long Race
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Long Rope Wait
It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Betetr Horne Wing
He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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Play Well Win
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
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
I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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King Loss Spring
In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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Courtesy Desire News
God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Medical Physician Thank
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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House One People Trust
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Master Parent Requite
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Gold Hands Lost
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Needle Past People Thread
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
The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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Fear God Knowledge Men Void
He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Pay People Surety

A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.

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