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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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Poet
Politician
Priest
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Eloquence
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Love

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Get to live Then live, and use it else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone.
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A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.
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Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Noble houskeepers neede no dores.
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War is death's feast.
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Humble Hearts have humble desires.
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In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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He that measures not himselfe, is measured.
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Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.
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Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe. [Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.]
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