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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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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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A pittifull looke askes enough.
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Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
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February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]
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Greene wood makes a hott fire.
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One enemy is too much.
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If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.
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Dogs are fine in the field.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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That which two will, takes effect.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Wine ever paies for his loding.
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The morning Sunne never lasts a day.
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Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.
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Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.
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You may be on land, yet not in a garden.
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All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
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