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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]

George Herbert

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
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
GEORGE HERBERT

Honour Profit Religion
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fear Grief Money
Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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Debt Grow Rich
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
GEORGE HERBERT

Ask Book Sounsell
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
GEORGE HERBERT

Law Morning Night
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
GEORGE HERBERT

Deception Feet Physicians
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
GEORGE HERBERT

Encounter Goeth Hath
Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
GEORGE HERBERT

Brabling Need
It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bed Dangerous Fire
When war begins, then hell openeth.
GEORGE HERBERT

Hell Openth War
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
GEORGE HERBERT

Burden Know Understand Weight
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
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
GEORGE HERBERT

Morning Night Soul
Wee know not who lives or dies.
GEORGE HERBERT

Die Know Live People
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
GEORGE HERBERT

Horse Long Race

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