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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]

George Herbert

Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
GEORGE HERBERT

Body Pain Wine
Anothers bread costs deare.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bread Cost Dear
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fishing Jew Pot Wine
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
GEORGE HERBERT

End Furthest Thinke
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
GEORGE HERBERT

Dry Slander Tempest
We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
GEORGE HERBERT

Enough Soon Wells
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
GEORGE HERBERT

Brest Side Squrres
Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fear Hope Path Right Wrong
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
GEORGE HERBERT

Night Wisdom Wise
Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
GEORGE HERBERT

Medicine Mony People Ready
In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
GEORGE HERBERT

Courtesy Desire News
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Good Make Pig Shaft Tail
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beare Eye Jest Religion
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
GEORGE HERBERT

Honour Profit Religion
No Alchymy to saving.
GEORGE HERBERT

Alchymy People Save
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bees Know Spy

To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]

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