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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

George Herbert

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
Conversation makes one what he is.
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Conversation Make People Success
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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Night Wisdom Wise
When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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Gate Hell Lackey
Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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Burden Light Long
When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Hell Openth War
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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King Void Years
Trust not one night’s ice.
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Ice Night Trust
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
Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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Foxes Girdle Mate
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Giving Soul Sweet
All that shakes falles not.
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People Shakefall
A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Payment Penny People Twice
When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Mirth Needs Sin
There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Men Remedy Thing
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Married Men Stake

A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

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