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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
GEORGE HERBERT

Age Example Need
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
GEORGE HERBERT

Need Patience Speak
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
GEORGE HERBERT

Encounter Goeth Hath
The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fear God Knowledge Men Void
He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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Friday Sing Sunday Week
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Fine Ill Littles Wrapt
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
GEORGE HERBERT

Horse Long Race
By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mean Measure Run Year
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Children Father First
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Cheerful Encouragement Positivity
It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bed Dangerous Fire
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Cure Frenzy Jealovsie
A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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Bees Hony Maketh
Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fear Hope Path Right Wrong
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mean Solitude Use
The scalded head feares cold water.
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Cold Fear Water
Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Land Ocean Sea
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
GEORGE HERBERT

Honour Profit Religion
Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
GEORGE HERBERT

Medicine Mony People Ready
They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
GEORGE HERBERT

Always Boot Ready
It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Betetr Horne Wing
Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
GEORGE HERBERT

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

Fame Many Way
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
GEORGE HERBERT

Another Feet Half Straw
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
GEORGE HERBERT

Make Mill Paire Wind
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
GEORGE HERBERT

Assurance Master Pay

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