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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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The first dish pleaseth all.
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Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
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He that serves, must serve.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.
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To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.
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Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Beare with evill, and expect good.
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The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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Three women make a market.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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Prosperity lets goe the bridle.
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Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.
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I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]
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God sends a curst cow short horns.
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A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.
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He that studies his content, wants it.
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Could have recovered greenness?
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