"He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides."
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"He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne."
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"Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes."
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"An old cat sports not with her prey."
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"He that lives most dies most."
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"He that steals an egg will steal an ox."
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"That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe."
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"The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures."
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"The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house. [The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.]"
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"Money wants no followers."
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"He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]"
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"He that sowes trusts in God."
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"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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"God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited."
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"He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife."
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"Every ill man hath his ill day."
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"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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"He that goeth farre hath many encounters."
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"The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick."
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"The hard gives more then he that hath nothing."
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