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Prettiness dies first.

George Herbert

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
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
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Men Miserable Pennies
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
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
GEORGE HERBERT

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

Burden Know Understand Weight
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
GEORGE HERBERT

Goest Grief People World
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Cutt Steel Tongue
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
GEORGE HERBERT

Encounter Goeth Hath
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
GEORGE HERBERT

Giving Soul Sweet
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fair Ready Window
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fine Ill Littles Wrapt
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
GEORGE HERBERT

Make Mill Paire Wind
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
GEORGE HERBERT

Eat Greedy Horse
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beauty Flame Light
Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
GEORGE HERBERT

Debt Grow Rich

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