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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

George Herbert

I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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King Loss Spring
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Fasten Gaine People
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Law Morning Night
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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Morning Night Soul
The cholerick man never wants woe.
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Cholerick Men Need Woe
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
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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End Furthest Thinke
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Make Mill Paire Wind
A child correct behind and not before.
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Behind Children Correct
In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Leopard Observe Spot
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Door Enter House Leave
Heresie is the school of pride.
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Honour Pride School
The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Cow Lost Tail
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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Fair Ready Window
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Cutt Steel Tongue
He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Pay People Surety

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