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George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
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The Mill gets by going.
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Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.
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Noble houskeepers neede no dores.
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Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Words and feathers the wind carries away.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney.
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O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!
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None is borne Master.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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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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Health and mony goe farre. [Health and money go far.]
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The tongue talkes at the heads cost.
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Armour is light at table.
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Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
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Water a farre off quencheth not fire.
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