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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Giving Soul Sweet
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
GEORGE HERBERT

Alcohol Drink Glass
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
GEORGE HERBERT

First Fool Wedge
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Distance Envy Greatness
Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
GEORGE HERBERT

Land Ocean Sea
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
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
GEORGE HERBERT

Absent Dead House
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
GEORGE HERBERT

Gentle Heart Love
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
GEORGE HERBERT

Come Hen Scrape
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
Never was strumpet faire.
GEORGE HERBERT

Create Faire Strumpet
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ill Straw
A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
GEORGE HERBERT

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

Cutt Steel Tongue
Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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Owner Purpose Witty
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Honest Thieves Thunder

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