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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.

George Herbert

The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beare Eye Jest Religion
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
GEORGE HERBERT

Dust Flesh Mortality
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
GEORGE HERBERT

Know Shoe Wear Wring
Wee know not who lives or dies.
GEORGE HERBERT

Die Know Live People
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
GEORGE HERBERT

Encounter Goeth Hath
He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
GEORGE HERBERT

Betimes Rise Some Thing
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Folly Jollity Smack
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
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
GEORGE HERBERT

Body Pain Wine
Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
GEORGE HERBERT

Burden Light Long
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Poor Reason Weigh
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
GEORGE HERBERT

Drowned Length Swimmer
Never was strumpet faire.
GEORGE HERBERT

Create Faire Strumpet
Music helps not the toothache.
GEORGE HERBERT

Help Music Toothache
It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bed Dangerous Fire
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

Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.

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