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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.
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Marry your sonne when you will your daughter when you can. [Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can.]
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He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.
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He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Prosperity lets goe the bridle.
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'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'
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Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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What one day gives us, another takes away from us. [What one day gives, another takes away from us.]
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To buy deare is not bounty.
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Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.
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He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.
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It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.
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One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
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For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
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Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.
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An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
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An ill deede cannot bring honour.
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When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.
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