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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.

George Herbert

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

Children Father First
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
GEORGE HERBERT

Good Hard Newes
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
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
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Land Sea Settle
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Honest Thieves Thunder
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
GEORGE HERBERT

Night Wisdom Wise
Music helps not the toothache.
GEORGE HERBERT

Help Music Toothache
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
GEORGE HERBERT

Blame Peter Saint
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
GEORGE HERBERT

Cure Frenzy Jealovsie
Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
GEORGE HERBERT

Salt Smell Taste
Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
GEORGE HERBERT

Foxes Girdle Mate
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
GEORGE HERBERT

Gold Hands Lost
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
GEORGE HERBERT

First Fool Wedge
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beauty Flame Light
France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
GEORGE HERBERT

Country Cutting People Thrice

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