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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]

George Herbert

Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Better Health People Suffer
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Credit Eye Touched
It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Betetr Horne Wing
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Poor Reason Weigh
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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House One People Trust
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?
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Body Pain Wine
He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Pay People Surety
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Folly Grief House
It’s not good fishing before the net.
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Catch Fish Good Net
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Bread Estate Two Wallet
No Alchymy to saving.
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Alchymy People Save
I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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King Loss Spring
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Beare Eye Jest Religion
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Mean Sky Success
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
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

If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]

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