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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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Storms make oaks take deeper root.
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It's not good fishing before the net.
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Nothing secure unlesse suspected.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.
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Hee that keepes his owne makes warre.
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You cannot flea a stone.
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Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.
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No day so clear but hath dark clouds.
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Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?
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At the games end we shall see who gaines.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Every path hath a puddle.
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The first and last frosts are the worst.
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A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.
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The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).
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Noble houskeepers neede no dores.
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If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.
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To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.
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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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