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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
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Love makes a good eye squint.
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When a friend askes, there is no to morrow. [When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow.]
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A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.
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We must love, as looking one day to hate.
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Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country.
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He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.
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It is a great victory that comes without blood.
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A house and a woman sute excellently.
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A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
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He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not. [He that doth what he should not shall feel what he would not.]
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Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
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Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Valour that parlies is neare yeelding. [Valor that parleys is near yielding.]
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