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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Take the gentle path.
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One flower makes no garland.
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Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
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Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]
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Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.
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If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.
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'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'
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Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!
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The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.
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A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
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The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.
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Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
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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.
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Dogs are fine in the field.
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Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.
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It's absurd to warme one in his armour.
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Be thrifty, but not covetous.
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