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• Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

  George Herbert

  Glasses, Alcohol, Drink

  'The Church-porch', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

  George Herbert

  Wish, Literature, Hell

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.146

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• The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

  George Herbert

  Taken, Literature, Holes

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.187

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• Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.

  George Herbert

  Knowledge, Grace, Guides

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 364, 1895.

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• Let all live as they would die.

  George Herbert

  Life, Dies

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.316

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• The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
  God takes a text, and preacheth patience.

  George Herbert

  Patience, Want, Speak

  'The Church Porch' (1633) st. 72

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• He that respects not is not respected.

  George Herbert

  Respect

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.305

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• A dwarf on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.

  George Herbert

  Teamwork, Dwarves, Two

  "The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall".

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• Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.

  George Herbert

  Spring, May, Springtime

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.363

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• He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

  George Herbert

  Prayer, Ocean, Sea

  Jacula Prudentum (published posthumously, 1651).

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• This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked now as it was in the days of Plato, is, in simple truth, ten times more important to humanity than all the chemistry and physics, all the technical and indsutrial science that ever has been or ever will be discovered.

  George Herbert

  Plato, Knowledge, Science

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• Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.

  George Herbert

  Made, Trade

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.363

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• It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

  George Herbert

  Inferiority, Literature, Spirit

  George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Barnabas Oley (1848). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...”, p.298

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• A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

  George Herbert

  Garden, Body

  "The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel".

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• Money refused loose its brightness.

  George Herbert

  Brightness, Refuse

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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.'

  George Herbert

  Science, Devil, Way

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• But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.

  George Herbert

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

  George Herbert

  Stupid, Taken, Science

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• The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.

  George Herbert

  School, Science, Acquisition

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• We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

  George Herbert

  Age, Example, Needs

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.8

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• Stay a little and news will find you.

  George Herbert

  News, Littles

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.302

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• Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

  George Herbert

  Cutting, Kissing, Hands

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.300

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• Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

  George Herbert

  Spiritual, Kings, Thee

  'The Elixir' (1633)

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• The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.

  George Herbert

  Love, Children, Smell

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• Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

  George Herbert

  Editors, Clothes, Noblemen

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.331

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