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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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Do not wait the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Many things are lost for want of asking.
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Of the smells, bread of the tastes, salt.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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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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A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.
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Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.
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A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing. [Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]
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Fear kills more than disease.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
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