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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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God's mill grinds slow, but sure.
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Such a Saint, such an offering.
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Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles.
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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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Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]
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Love makes one fitt for any work.
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The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
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Love is the true price of love.
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Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
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Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
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There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.
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Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.
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Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.
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Woe be to him that reads but one book.
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The eyes have one language everywhere.
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The thread breakes, where it is weakest.
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A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.
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There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering.
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The first dish pleaseth all.
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He that hath lands hath quarrells.
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