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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.

George Herbert

True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beauty Flame Light
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.
GEORGE HERBERT

Morning Night Soul
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Land Sea Settle
Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
GEORGE HERBERT

Foxes Girdle Mate
A child correct behind and not before.
GEORGE HERBERT

Behind Children Correct
There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Men Remedy Thing
Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
GEORGE HERBERT

Need Occasion Require
Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
GEORGE HERBERT

Ever Himself Look Well
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?
GEORGE HERBERT

Body Pain Wine
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
GEORGE HERBERT

Goest Grief People World
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bees Found Rivers
He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
GEORGE HERBERT

Emotion Much Spaniard
I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
GEORGE HERBERT

King Loss Spring
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
GEORGE HERBERT

Long Rope Wait
Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
GEORGE HERBERT

Everyone Fault Time
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bone Dog Swallow

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