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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

George Herbert

Trust not one night’s ice.
GEORGE HERBERT

Ice Night Trust
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
GEORGE HERBERT

Long Rope Wait
When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
GEORGE HERBERT

Gate Hell Lackey
Anothers bread costs deare.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bread Cost Dear
All that shakes falles not.
GEORGE HERBERT

People Shakefall
Good is the mora that makes all sure.
GEORGE HERBERT

All Good Mora Sure
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 riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
GEORGE HERBERT

Betimes Rise Some Thing
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
GEORGE HERBERT

Discontened Easie Men
The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Deeds Wise
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERT

Distance Envy Greatness
Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
GEORGE HERBERT

Angel Sunday Think
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Folly Jollity Smack
The life of man is a winter way.
GEORGE HERBERT

Men Way Winter
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
GEORGE HERBERT

End Lasts Particular
There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Men Remedy Thing

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