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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

George Herbert

There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Fame Many Way
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERT

Distance Envy Greatness
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fishing Jew Pot Wine
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
GEORGE HERBERT

Need Patience Speak
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
GEORGE HERBERT

Another Feet Half Straw
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
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Fat House Keeper
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
GEORGE HERBERT

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

Master Parent Requite
The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
GEORGE HERBERT

Children Love Smell
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Poor Reason Weigh
An old dog barks not in vain.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bark Dog Vain
The eye will have his part.
GEORGE HERBERT

Eye Hope Part Vision
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
Wee know not who lives or dies.
GEORGE HERBERT

Die Know Live People
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
GEORGE HERBERT

Long Rope Wait

Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

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