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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]

George Herbert

Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
GEORGE HERBERT

Good Hard Newes
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
GEORGE HERBERT

Brest Side Squrres
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
GEORGE HERBERT

Master Parent Requite
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
GEORGE HERBERT

Children Father First
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Bees Eye Lose
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bird Feather Hand
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
GEORGE HERBERT

Food Smell Taste
In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Bottom Swim World
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
GEORGE HERBERT

Door Enter House Leave
He that staies does the businesse.
GEORGE HERBERT

Busines Gather People Staiies
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
He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
GEORGE HERBERT

Betimes Rise Some Thing
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
The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
GEORGE HERBERT

Children Love Smell
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Poor Reason Weigh
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
GEORGE HERBERT

Deception Feet Physicians

Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]

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