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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.
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Let all live as they would die.
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For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
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The first blow is as much as two.
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No naked man is sought after to be rifled.
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The house shows the owner.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.
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I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why. [I wept when I was born and every day explains why.]
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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Mony refused looseth its brightnesse.
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The Rich knowes not who is his friend. [The rich knows not who is his friend.]
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another. [Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another.]
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