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No Alchymy to saving.

George Herbert

The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beare Eye Jest Religion
Anothers bread costs deare.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bread Cost Dear
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
GEORGE HERBERT

Little Own Patient
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
GEORGE HERBERT

Children Father First
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
GEORGE HERBERT

Needle Past People Thread
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Folly Grief House
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
GEORGE HERBERT

Gentle Heart Love
In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Bottom Swim World
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
GEORGE HERBERT

Credit Eye Touched
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
GEORGE HERBERT

Affection Brain Heat
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bone Dog Swallow
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
GEORGE HERBERT

Married Men Stake
Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
GEORGE HERBERT

God Thee Will
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bread Estate Two Wallet
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mean Solitude Use
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Land Sea Settle

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