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Music helps not the toothache.

George Herbert

True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beauty Flame Light
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
GEORGE HERBERT

Drink Frog Gossip Talk
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
GEORGE HERBERT

Long Rope Wait
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Need Patience Speak
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Children Morsel Own
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Fear Grief Money
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
Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Haste Meet Seldom
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bee Gain May Steal
Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Land Ocean Sea
It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Bed Dangerous Fire
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Bacon Chimney Think
In a long journey straw waighs.
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Journey Long Patience Weight
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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Land Sea Settle
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
Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
GEORGE HERBERT

Covertly Rude Speak Truth

Music helps not the toothache.

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