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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.

George Herbert

The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
GEORGE HERBERT

Know Shoe Wear Wring
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bacon Chimney Think
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
GEORGE HERBERT

First Fool Wedge
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Folly Grief House
Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
GEORGE HERBERT

Debt Grow Rich
Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Ears Hearing Little
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beare Eye Jest Religion
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
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERT

Distance Envy Greatness
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fasten Gaine People
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
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Good Make Pig Shaft Tail
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
GEORGE HERBERT

Ask Book Sounsell
The wife is the key of the house.
GEORGE HERBERT

House Key Wife
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
GEORGE HERBERT

Good Hard Newes
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Cheerful Encouragement Positivity

Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.

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