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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.

George Herbert

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

Another Feet Half Straw
Good workemen are seldome rich.
GEORGE HERBERT

Good Rich Work
There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Men Remedy Thing
He that will be surety, shall pay.
GEORGE HERBERT

Pay People Surety
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beare Eye Jest Religion
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mean Solitude Use
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bacon Chimney Think
All our pompe the earth covers.
GEORGE HERBERT

Cover Earth Pompe
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
GEORGE HERBERT

Law Morning Night
I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
GEORGE HERBERT

King Loss Spring
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fair Ready Window
Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Fire Ship Water
Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Astrology Find Matter People
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Men Miserable Pennies
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mother Nose Wipe
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fear Grief Money

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