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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.

George Herbert

Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Fire Ship Water
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Bread Estate Two Wallet
Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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May Spring
A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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Bees Hony Maketh
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Burden Know Understand Weight
Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Better None People Servant
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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Lying Perish Trust
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Beare Eye Jest Religion
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
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Law Morning Night
The way is an ill neighbour.
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Ill Neighbour Way
He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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Chasten Emotion People Version
Trust not one night’s ice.
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Ice Night Trust
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
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
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Alcohol Drink Glass

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