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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.

George Herbert

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

First Fool Wedge
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
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fair Ready Window
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
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Children Father First
Never was strumpet faire.
GEORGE HERBERT

Create Faire Strumpet
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Fire Soldier Water
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
GEORGE HERBERT

Drink Frog Gossip Talk
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
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Bread Estate Two Wallet
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
GEORGE HERBERT

Credit Eye Touched
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
GEORGE HERBERT

Absent Dead House
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
GEORGE HERBERT

King Void Years
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
GEORGE HERBERT

Discontened Easie Men
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
GEORGE HERBERT

Make Mill Paire Wind
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beauty Borrowed Flame

Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.

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