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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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Love and businesse teach eloquence.
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To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell.
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Advise none to marry or go to war.
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The wolf must die in his own skin.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Thursday come, and the week's gone.
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Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.
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God sends a curst cow short horns.
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Love and a cough cannot be hid.
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The house shows the owner.
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There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.
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Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]
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Man is all symmetry Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides Each part may call the farthest, brother For head with foot hath private amity And both with moons and tides.
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Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.
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Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
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Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.
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When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.
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A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.
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He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.
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