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Good swimmers at length are drowned.

George Herbert

God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Master Parent Requite
Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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Need Occasion Require
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
GEORGE HERBERT

King Void Years
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Law Morning Night
The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Cow Lost Tail
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
GEORGE HERBERT

Age Example Need
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
GEORGE HERBERT

Compromise Fat Lawsuit
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fear Grief Money
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fair Ready Window
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mean Solitude Use
He that burnes most shines most.
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Buriesm Most Emotion People Shine
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Horse Long Race
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Beauty Borrowed Flame
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Foul Horse Stalk
It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Egg Hard Shave
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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Dog Fire Nut

Good swimmers at length are drowned.

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