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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.

George Herbert

God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
GEORGE HERBERT

Master Parent Requite
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
GEORGE HERBERT

Good Hard Newes
Anothers bread costs deare.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bread Cost Dear
When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mirth Needs Sin
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
GEORGE HERBERT

Encounter Goeth Hath
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
GEORGE HERBERT

Married Men Stake
He that burnes most shines most.
GEORGE HERBERT

Buriesm Most Emotion People Shine
It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bed Dangerous Fire
He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Play Well Win
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
GEORGE HERBERT

Affection Brain Heat
To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
GEORGE HERBERT

Age Need Treasurer Youth
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Fish Morsel Take
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERT

Distance Envy Greatness
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mother Nose Wipe
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Bees Eye Lose
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Land Sea Settle

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