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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).

George Herbert

With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Live Well Well
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Lying Reason Spurs
It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Bow Fish Rule Sure
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
The scalded head feares cold water.
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Cold Fear Water
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Burden Know Understand Weight
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Ask Book Sounsell
A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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Bees Hony Maketh
It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Betetr Horne Wing
France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Country Cutting People Thrice
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.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mirth Needs Sin
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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Body Pain Wine
The cholerick man never wants woe.
GEORGE HERBERT

Cholerick Men Need Woe
He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Play Well Win
Anothers bread costs deare.
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Bread Cost Dear
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
GEORGE HERBERT

Door Enter House Leave

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