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Music helps not the toothache.

George Herbert

Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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Burden Light Long
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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Food Smell Taste
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Folly Grief House
Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
GEORGE HERBERT

Angel Sunday Think
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Bread Estate Two Wallet
He that burnes most shines most.
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Buriesm Most Emotion People Shine
God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Medical Physician Thank
By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mean Measure Run Year
He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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Emotion Much Spaniard
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Honest Thieves Thunder
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
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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Bees Eye Lose
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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Folly Jollity Smack
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Bacon Chimney Think
Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
GEORGE HERBERT

Gratitude Thankful Thanksgiving
Never was strumpet faire.
GEORGE HERBERT

Create Faire Strumpet

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