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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]

George Herbert

Wee know not who lives or dies.
GEORGE HERBERT

Die Know Live People
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Poor Reason Weigh
Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
GEORGE HERBERT

May Spring
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Honest Thieves Thunder
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
GEORGE HERBERT

Little Own Patient
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
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 offender never pardons.
GEORGE HERBERT

Forgiveness Literature Pardon
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beare Eye Jest Religion
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
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
GEORGE HERBERT

Live Well Well
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
GEORGE HERBERT

Atheism Atheist Devil
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
GEORGE HERBERT

Need Patience Speak
It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bow Fish Rule Sure
He that staies does the businesse.
GEORGE HERBERT

Busines Gather People Staiies
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Dog Fire Nut

Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]

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