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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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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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A woman conceales what shee knowes not.
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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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Shee spins well that breedes her children.
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Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?
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One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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Noble houskeepers neede no dores.
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He warmes too neere that burnes.
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God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.
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I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white.
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There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul mark the decay And growth of it if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.
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Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie.
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A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule.
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