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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.

George Herbert

The wife is the key of the house.
GEORGE HERBERT

House Key Wife
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mean Solitude Use
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 is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Ask Book Sounsell
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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Built House Lawyer
Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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Dead Give Restore
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
GEORGE HERBERT

Needle Past People Thread
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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House One People Trust
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Giving Soul Sweet
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Beauty Husband Lover Poor
It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Egg Hard Shave
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
GEORGE HERBERT

Cure Frenzy Jealovsie
In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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Bottom Swim World
All that shakes falles not.
GEORGE HERBERT

People Shakefall
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Honest Thieves Thunder
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Bees Eye Lose

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