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The way is an ill neighbour.

George Herbert

He that staies does the businesse.
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Busines Gather People Staiies
The cholerick man never wants woe.
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Cholerick Men Need Woe
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Fat House Keeper
Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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Fool Hour Wit
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Bird Feather Hand
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
There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Men Remedy Thing
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Cutt Steel Tongue
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Horse Long Race
It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Bed Dangerous Fire
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
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Gentle Heart Love
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Cure Frenzy Jealovsie
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Broken Ill Look Ustom
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
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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End Lasts Particular

The way is an ill neighbour.

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