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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.
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A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.
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Quick believers need broad shoulders.
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Words and feathers the wind carries away.
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Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.
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Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.
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If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
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A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears.
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Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.
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God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
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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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God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.
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Fine words dresse ill deedes.
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He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.
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Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.
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What one day gives us, another takes away from us. [What one day gives, another takes away from us.]
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Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
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February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]
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