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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

George Herbert

Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
GEORGE HERBERT

Covertly Rude Speak Truth
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Lying Reason Spurs
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
GEORGE HERBERT

Discontened Easie Men
Heresie is the school of pride.
GEORGE HERBERT

Honour Pride School
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bone Dog Swallow
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
GEORGE HERBERT

Ill Straw
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
GEORGE HERBERT

Absent Dead House
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
GEORGE HERBERT

Children Morsel Own
When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
GEORGE HERBERT

Gate Hell Lackey
I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
GEORGE HERBERT

King Loss Spring
Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Better Health People Suffer
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
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Fat House Keeper
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
GEORGE HERBERT

Make Mill Paire Wind
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
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mother Nose Wipe

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

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