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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.]
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Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.
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Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him.
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A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.
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Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
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Love makes one fitt for any work.
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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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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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Heresie is the school of pride.
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Judge not the preacher for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speak something good. If all want sense, God takes a text, and preaches patience.
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A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.
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