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The way is an ill neighbour.

George Herbert

Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Drowned Length Swimmer
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Make Mill Paire Wind
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Honest Thieves Thunder
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Door Enter House Leave
Trust not one night’s ice.
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Ice Night Trust
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Children Father First
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Atheism Atheist Devil
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Needle Past People Thread
Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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God Thee Will
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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Dog Fire Nut
Heresie is the school of pride.
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Honour Pride School
To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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Gain Spend Techheth
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Men Miserable Pennies
Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Salt Smell Taste
To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Age Need Treasurer Youth
When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Hell Openth War

The way is an ill neighbour.

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