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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back.
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Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.
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He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.
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Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.
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Hee that keepes his owne makes warre.
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Get to live Then live, and use it else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.
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The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.
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To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).
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Of the smells, bread of the tastes, salt.
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The smith and his penny both are black.
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Death keepes no Calender.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered, never gives But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
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Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.
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