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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
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An ill deede cannot bring honour.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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God sees hearts as we see faces.
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Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.
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If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.
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A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.
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Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.
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Such a Saint, such an offering.
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Who hath no head, needes no heart.
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Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.
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Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.
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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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A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.
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The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.
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Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.
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Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]
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A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long.
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