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

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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

God Thee Will
Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
GEORGE HERBERT

Debt Grow Rich
Heresie is the school of pride.
GEORGE HERBERT

Honour Pride School
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
GEORGE HERBERT

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

Another Feet Half Straw
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
GEORGE HERBERT

Little Own Patient
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bone Dog Swallow
It’s not good fishing before the net.
GEORGE HERBERT

Catch Fish Good Net
Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
GEORGE HERBERT

Covertly Rude Speak Truth
By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
GEORGE HERBERT

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

Bees Found Rivers
The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Deeds Wise
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bee Gain May Steal
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
GEORGE HERBERT

Age Example Need
Trust not one night’s ice.
GEORGE HERBERT

Ice Night Trust
France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Country Cutting People Thrice
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Fish Morsel Take
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
GEORGE HERBERT

Children Morsel Own
Where there is peace, God is.
GEORGE HERBERT

God Life Peace
Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Fire Ship Water
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
Music helps not the toothache.
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Help Music Toothache
To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
GEORGE HERBERT

Age Need Treasurer Youth
Never was strumpet faire.
GEORGE HERBERT

Create Faire Strumpet
He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
GEORGE HERBERT

Friday Sing Sunday Week
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

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