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The life of man is a winter way.

George Herbert

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

Children Father First
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
GEORGE HERBERT

Alcohol Drink Glass
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
GEORGE HERBERT

Blame Peter Saint
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
GEORGE HERBERT

Book Gains Need
The offender never pardons.
GEORGE HERBERT

Forgiveness Literature Pardon
Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Fire Ship Water
It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bow Fish Rule Sure
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fair Ready Window
Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
GEORGE HERBERT

Dead Give Restore
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Cutt Steel Tongue
It’s not good fishing before the net.
GEORGE HERBERT

Catch Fish Good Net
He that is angry at a feast is rude.
GEORGE HERBERT

Angry Feast Rude
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
I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
GEORGE HERBERT

King Loss Spring
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
He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
GEORGE HERBERT

Betimes Rise Some Thing

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