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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.

George Herbert

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
Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Money Mony Women
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Beauty Borrowed Flame
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
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Bee Gain May Steal
Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Fire Ship Water
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Distance Envy Greatness
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Law Morning Night
There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Men Remedy Thing
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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Fishing Jew Pot Wine
Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Better None People Servant
An old dog barks not in vain.
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Bark Dog Vain
Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Covertly Rude Speak Truth
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
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
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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Bees Eye Lose

Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.

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