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Wee know not who lives or dies.

George Herbert

Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fear Hope Path Right Wrong
Prettiness dies first.
GEORGE HERBERT

Die First Prettiness
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
GEORGE HERBERT

Affection Brain Heat
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Bees Eye Lose
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
GEORGE HERBERT

Dry Slander Tempest
An old dog barks not in vain.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bark Dog Vain
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 Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Law Morning Night
A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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Bees Hony Maketh
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Bread Estate Two Wallet
The wife is the key of the house.
GEORGE HERBERT

House Key Wife
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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Fair Ready Window
There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Men Remedy Thing
Where there is peace, God is.
GEORGE HERBERT

God Life Peace
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
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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Beauty Flame Light

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