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

George Herbert

Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
GEORGE HERBERT

Foul Horse Stalk
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
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
GEORGE HERBERT

Affection Brain Heat
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bee Honey Sweet
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
GEORGE HERBERT

Come Hen Scrape
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Poor Reason Weigh
Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Money Mony Women
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bacon Chimney Think
Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fool Hour Wit
When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mirth Needs Sin
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
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
GEORGE HERBERT

Dry Slander Tempest
All that shakes falles not.
GEORGE HERBERT

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

Cutt Steel Tongue
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
GEORGE HERBERT

Gold Hands Lost
It’s not good fishing before the net.
GEORGE HERBERT

Catch Fish Good Net

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

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