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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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The wind in ones face makes one wise.
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Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
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If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.
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A pittifull mother makes a scald head.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul mark the decay And growth of it if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.
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To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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