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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

George Herbert

He that will be surety, shall pay.
GEORGE HERBERT

Pay People Surety
He that chastens one, chastens 20.
GEORGE HERBERT

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

Children Father First
Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
GEORGE HERBERT

Salt Smell Taste
He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
GEORGE HERBERT

Betimes Rise Some Thing
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
GEORGE HERBERT

Absent Dead House
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
GEORGE HERBERT

Come Hen Scrape
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bone Dog Swallow
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Men Miserable Pennies
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mean Sky Success
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
GEORGE HERBERT

Lying Perish Trust
Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fear Hope Path Right Wrong
Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
GEORGE HERBERT

Covertly Rude Speak Truth
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 hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
GEORGE HERBERT

Another Feet Half Straw

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

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