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Good workemen are seldome rich.

George Herbert

Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
GEORGE HERBERT

Gold Hands Lost
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
GEORGE HERBERT

Credit Eye Touched
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
GEORGE HERBERT

Lying Perish Trust
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
GEORGE HERBERT

Built House Lawyer
An ill deed cannot bring honor.
GEORGE HERBERT

Deed Honor Ill
Never was strumpet faire.
GEORGE HERBERT

Create Faire Strumpet
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
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Land Sea Settle
A penny spar’d is twice got.
GEORGE HERBERT

Payment Penny People Twice
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
GEORGE HERBERT

Needle Past People Thread
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
GEORGE HERBERT

Call Chuse Olives
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
GEORGE HERBERT

Brest Side Squrres
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
GEORGE HERBERT

Alcohol Drink Glass
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
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Folly Grief House
An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
GEORGE HERBERT

Choak Myself Upbraided

Good workemen are seldome rich.

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