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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]

George Herbert

The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
GEORGE HERBERT

Children Love Smell
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
In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
GEORGE HERBERT

Leopard Observe Spot
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
GEORGE HERBERT

Alcohol Drink Glass
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
GEORGE HERBERT

Drowned Length Swimmer
Anothers bread costs deare.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bread Cost Dear
Good and quickly seldom meet.
GEORGE HERBERT

Haste Meet Seldom
Wee know not who lives or dies.
GEORGE HERBERT

Die Know Live People
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Cutt Steel Tongue
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
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
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
GEORGE HERBERT

Book Gains Need
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
GEORGE HERBERT

Good Hard Newes
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
GEORGE HERBERT

Honour Profit Religion
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fair Ready Window

The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]

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