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

George Herbert

The wife is the key of the house.
GEORGE HERBERT

House Key Wife
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
GEORGE HERBERT

Horse Long Race
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
GEORGE HERBERT

Little Own Patient
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
GEORGE HERBERT

Age Example Need
Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
GEORGE HERBERT

Land Ocean Sea
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
GEORGE HERBERT

Another Feet Half Straw
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
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bird Feather Hand
Trust not one night’s ice.
GEORGE HERBERT

Ice Night Trust
He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Play Well Win
Prettiness dies first.
GEORGE HERBERT

Die First Prettiness
All that shakes falles not.
GEORGE HERBERT

People Shakefall
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERT

Distance Envy Greatness
All our pompe the earth covers.
GEORGE HERBERT

Cover Earth Pompe
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
GEORGE HERBERT

Morning Night Soul
An old dog barks not in vain.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bark Dog Vain

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

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