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Enrich My Heart, Mouth, Hands In Me, With Faith, With Hope, With Charity, That I May Run, Rise, Rest With Thee.

-George Herbert

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Enrich My Heart, Mouth,

George Herbert

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Enrich My Heart, Mouth, Hands In Me, With Faith, With Hope, With Charity, That I May Run, Rise, Rest With Thee.

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Flies Are Busiest About Leane Horses.

He That Hath Lands Hath Quarrells.

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Take Heede Of Still Waters, The Quick Passe Away.

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It Is A Poor Sport That Is Not Worth A Candle.

In Thy Discourse, If Thou Desire To Please; All Such Is Courteous, Useful, New, Or Wittie: Usefulness Comes By Labour, Wit Byease; Courtesie Grows In Court; News In The Citie.

Who Hath Bitter In His Mouth, Spits Not All Sweet.

A Snow Yeare, A Rich Yeare.

For A Morning Raine Leave Not Your Journey. [for A Morning Rain Leave Not Your Journey.]

A Garden Must Be Looked Unto And Dressed As The Body.

Every One Stretcheth His Legges According To His Coverlet. [every One Stretches His Legs According To His Coverlet.]

He Who Has The Pepper May Season As He Lists.

Hee That Workes After His Owne Manner, His Head Akes Not At The Matter.

A Morning Sunne, And A Wine-bred Child, And A Latin-bred Woman, Seldome End Well.

A Woman Conceales What Shee Knowes Not.

Hee That Dines And Leaves, Layes The Cloth Twice.

Though You Rise Early, Yet The Day Comes At His Time, And Not Till Then.

Working And Making A Fire Doth Discretion Require.

Musick Helps Not The Tooth-ach.

You Must Lose A Fly To Catch A Trout.

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While The Discreet Advise, The Foole Doth His Busines. [while The Discreet Advise, The Fool Doth His Busines.]

He That Lives Most Dies Most.

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The Rage Of A Wild Boar Is Able To Spoil More Then One Wood.

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Gold Thou Mayst Safely Touch; But If It Stick Unto Thy Hands, It Woundeth To The Quick.

Every Thing New Is Fine.

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One Sound Blow Will Serve To Undo Us All.

The Wind In Ones Face Makes One Wise.

A Lean Compromise Is Better Than A Fat Lawsuit.

He That Will Do Thee A Good Turne, Either He Will Be Gon Or Dye.

The Fault Is As Great As Hee That Is Faulty.

I Know The Ways Of Pleasure, The Sweet Strains, The Lullings And The Relishes Of It.

He That Serves Well Needes Not Ask His Wages.

Little Dogs Start The Hare, The Great Get Her.

Law Sutes Consume Time, And Mony, And Rest, And Friends.

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He That Chastens One, Chastens 20.

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.

The First Dish Pleaseth All.

How Wide Is All This Long Pretense! There Is In Love A Sweetness Ready Penned, Copy Out Only That, And Save Expense.

Hee That Would Be A Gentleman, Let Him Goe To An Assault.

Into A Mouth Shut Flies Flie Not.

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There Come Nought Out Of The Sacke But What Was There.

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To A Boiling Pot Flies Come Not.

The Tongue Walkes Where The Teeth Speede Not.

You May Be On Land, Yet Not In A Garden.

The Chiefe Boxe Of Health Is Time.

The Best Mirror Is An Old Friend.

Great Trees Are Good For Nothing But Shade.

Life Is Half Spent Before We Know What It Is.

Willowes Are Weak, Yet They Bind Other Wood.

To A Fair Day Open The Window, But Make You Ready As To A Foule.

Hunger Makes Dinners, Pastime Suppers.

Words And Feathers The Wind Carries Away.

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God Strikes With His Finger, And Not With All His Arm.

Hee That Is In A Towne In May Loseth His Spring.

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To Whirle The Eyes Too Much Shewes A Kites Braine.

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He That Riseth Betimes Hath Some Thing In His Head.

The Least Foolish Is Wise.

Health And Sicknesse Surely Are Mens Double Enemies. [health And Sickness Surely Are Men's Double Enemies.]

When War Begins, Then Hell Openeth.

Hee That Goes To Bed Thirsty Riseth Healthy.

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He That Sings On Friday, Will Weepe On Sunday.

The First Blow Is As Much As Two.

A Dead Bee Maketh No Hony.

One Mouth Doth Nothing Without Another.

He Complaines Wrongfully On The Sea That Twice Suffers Shipwrack.

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Tis Hard To Be Wretched, But Worse To Be Knowne So.

Almes Never Make Poore.

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The Eye Will Have His Part.

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For The Same Man To Be An Heretick And A Good Subject, Is Incompossible.

He That Lends, Gives.

When All Sinnes Grow Old, Coveteousnesse Is Young.

The Slothful Is The Servant Of The Counters.

All Feete Tread Not In One Shoe.

Helpe Thy Selfe, And God Will Helpe Thee.

Give A Clown Your Finger, And He Will Take Your Hand.

A Faire Death Honours The Whole Life.

Death Keepes No Calender.

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The Smith And His Penny Both Are Black.

A Caske And An Ill Custome Must Be Broken.

Good Newes May Bee Told At Any Time, But Ill In The Morning.

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The Longest Day Hath An Eueninge.

All Things Have Their Place, Knew Wee How To Place Them.

To A Crazy Ship, All Winds Are Contrary.

If You Walk On Snow You Cannot Hide Your Footprints.

Every Sin Brings Its Punishment With It.

Hee That Wipes The Childs Nose, Kisseth The Mothers Cheeke.

The Royall Crowne Cures Not The Head-ach. [the Royal Crown Cures Not The Headache.]

Would You Know What Money Is, Go Borrow Some.

Thinke Of Ease, But Worke On.

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