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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.
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A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]
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Good & quickly seldome meete.
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Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.
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Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.
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To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.
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He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.
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Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.
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He hath no leisure who useth it not.
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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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He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]
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Evening words are not like to morning.
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The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.
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Love makes one fitt for any work.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Who hastens a glutton choakes him.
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He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
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