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It’s not good fishing before the net.

George Herbert

In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Leopard Observe Spot
Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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God Thee Will
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Bee Honey Sweet
While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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Advise Discreet Fool
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Lying Reason Spurs
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
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Make Mill Paire Wind
The offender never pardons.
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Forgiveness Literature Pardon
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Broken Ill Look Ustom
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Mother Nose Wipe
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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Built House Lawyer
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Distance Envy Greatness
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Discontened Easie Men
He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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Angry Feast Rude
When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Hell Openth War
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Brest Side Squrres
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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Bees Found Rivers
Good workemen are seldome rich.
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Good Rich Work
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Bee Gain May Steal
Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Brabling Need
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
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Affection Brain Heat
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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Land Sea Settle
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Poor Reason Weigh
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Atheism Atheist Devil
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Bees Know Spy
Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Attend Men World

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