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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.

George Herbert

Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Come Hen Scrape
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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Land Sea Settle
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
He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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Play Well Win
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Bee Honey Sweet
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Gentle Heart Love
Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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Foxes Girdle Mate
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Long Rope Wait
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Compromise Fat Lawsuit
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
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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Fair Ready Window
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Dust Flesh Mortality
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
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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End Lasts Particular
The cholerick man never wants woe.
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Cholerick Men Need Woe
Conversation makes one what he is.
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Conversation Make People Success

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