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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.

George Herbert

To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
GEORGE HERBERT

Eat Greedy Horse
Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
GEORGE HERBERT

Everyone Fault Time
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
GEORGE HERBERT

House One People Trust
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
GEORGE HERBERT

Compromise Fat Lawsuit
In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
GEORGE HERBERT

Courtesy Desire News
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
GEORGE HERBERT

Assurance Master Pay
Good is the mora that makes all sure.
GEORGE HERBERT

All Good Mora Sure
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bee Gain May Steal
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
Anothers bread costs deare.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bread Cost Dear
Good and quickly seldom meet.
GEORGE HERBERT

Haste Meet Seldom
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mean Sky Success
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
It’s not good fishing before the net.
GEORGE HERBERT

Catch Fish Good Net
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
GEORGE HERBERT

Discontened Easie Men
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mean Solitude Use

He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.

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