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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

George Herbert

In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bees Found Rivers
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beare Eye Jest Religion
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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Bees Eye Lose
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
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beauty Borrowed Flame
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
GEORGE HERBERT

Children Morsel Own
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
GEORGE HERBERT

Long Rope Wait
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
GEORGE HERBERT

Encounter Goeth Hath
Good and quickly seldom meet.
GEORGE HERBERT

Haste Meet Seldom
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Atheism Atheist Devil
He that will be surety, shall pay.
GEORGE HERBERT

Pay People Surety
The cholerick man never wants woe.
GEORGE HERBERT

Cholerick Men Need Woe
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
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bees Know Spy
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Folly Jollity Smack
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
GEORGE HERBERT

Dust Flesh Mortality

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