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None knows the weight of another’s burden.

George Herbert

A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Payment Penny People Twice
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Bee Honey Sweet
Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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God Thee Will
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
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Children Morsel Own
In a long journey straw waighs.
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Journey Long Patience Weight
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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Fish Morsel Take
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Mean Sky Success
There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
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Fame Many Way
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Credit Eye Touched
Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Ears Hearing Little
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Bees Know Spy
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Men Miserable Pennies
Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Brabling Need
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Burden Know Understand Weight
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

None knows the weight of another’s burden.

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