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George Herbert

While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Advise Discreet Fool
Conversation makes one what he is.
GEORGE HERBERT

Conversation Make People Success
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
GEORGE HERBERT

Dry Slander Tempest
Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Money Mony Women
The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
GEORGE HERBERT

Children Love Smell
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
Trust not one night’s ice.
GEORGE HERBERT

Ice Night Trust
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
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
GEORGE HERBERT

Good Hard Newes
Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
GEORGE HERBERT

Gratitude Thankful Thanksgiving
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bread Estate Two Wallet
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
GEORGE HERBERT

Children Father First
A child correct behind and not before.
GEORGE HERBERT

Behind Children Correct
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
GEORGE HERBERT

Food Smell Taste
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
GEORGE HERBERT

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

Mean Sky Success

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