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

Burden Know Understand Weight
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
GEORGE HERBERT

Foul Horse Stalk
They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
GEORGE HERBERT

Always Boot Ready
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bird Feather Hand
Good workemen are seldome rich.
GEORGE HERBERT

Good Rich Work
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
GEORGE HERBERT

Door Enter House Leave
There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Men Remedy Thing
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
GEORGE HERBERT

Blame Peter Saint
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bacon Chimney Think
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
GEORGE HERBERT

End Lasts Particular
The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Deeds Wise
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
GEORGE HERBERT

Master Parent Requite
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
GEORGE HERBERT

Goest Grief People World
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
GEORGE HERBERT

Know Shoe Wear Wring
In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Bottom Swim World
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
GEORGE HERBERT

Little Own Patient

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