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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

George Herbert

It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Bed Dangerous Fire
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
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Need Patience Speak
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Married Men Stake
Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Haste Meet Seldom
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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Bees Found Rivers
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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Good Hard Newes
Anothers bread costs deare.
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Bread Cost Dear
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Long Rope Wait
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Blame Peter Saint
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Alcohol Drink Glass
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Fear Grief Money
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
In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Leopard Observe Spot
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
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Goest Grief People World

A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

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