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Good workemen are seldome rich.

George Herbert

Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Land Ocean Sea
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
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
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Master Parent Requite
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
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
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Bee Gain May Steal
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Eat Greedy Horse
Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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Owner Purpose Witty
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
GEORGE HERBERT

Ask Book Sounsell
It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Bed Dangerous Fire
There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Men Remedy Thing
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Deception Feet Physicians
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
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
It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Bow Fish Rule Sure

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