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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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Emptie vessels sound most.
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To be too busie gets contempt.
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Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.
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Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]
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Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
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Hee that repaires not a part, builds all.
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He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]
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Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.
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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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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.
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Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.
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O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!
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He that hopes not for good, feares not evill.
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Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.
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Every mile is two in winter
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Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.
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The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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He that once deceives is ever suspected.
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