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

George Herbert

He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Children Morsel Own
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Mean Solitude Use
In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Leopard Observe Spot
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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Folly Jollity Smack
He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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Play Well Win
He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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Emotion Much Spaniard
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Age Example Need
The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Cow Lost Tail
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Distance Envy Greatness
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Burden Know Understand Weight
We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Enough Soon Wells
A little labour, much health.
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Health Labour Littles
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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First Fool Wedge
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Horse Long Race
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
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Long Rope Wait

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

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