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Conversation makes one what he is.

George Herbert

He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
GEORGE HERBERT

Book Gains Need
While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Advise Discreet Fool
Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Better Health People Suffer
When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
GEORGE HERBERT

Gate Hell Lackey
The eye will have his part.
GEORGE HERBERT

Eye Hope Part Vision
God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
GEORGE HERBERT

Medical Physician Thank
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
GEORGE HERBERT

Cure Frenzy Jealovsie
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
GEORGE HERBERT

Long Rope Wait
The wife is the key of the house.
GEORGE HERBERT

House Key Wife
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
GEORGE HERBERT

Giving Soul Sweet
The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Deeds Wise
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
GEORGE HERBERT

First Fool Wedge
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
GEORGE HERBERT

Another Feet Half Straw
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
GEORGE HERBERT

Dust Flesh Mortality
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

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