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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.

George Herbert

The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Absent Dead House
He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Play Well Win
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bees Know Spy
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Cutt Steel Tongue
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Bee Honey Sweet
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bacon Chimney Think
He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
GEORGE HERBERT

Emotion Much Spaniard
Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fool Hour Wit
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
GEORGE HERBERT

King Void Years
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
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
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Honest Thieves Thunder
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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Bees Found Rivers
Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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Dead Give Restore
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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Fortune Great Misfortune
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Deception Feet Physicians

Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.

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