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• The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.

  George Herbert

  Stealing, Sleeves, Geese

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.352

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• Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With Him mayst rise: That, as His death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.

  George Herbert

  Easter, Heart, Dust

  George Herbert, William Jerdan (1853). “The Works of the Rev. George Hebert”, p.41

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• Beauty draws more than oxen.

  George Herbert

  Beauty, Oxen, Draws

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.168

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• Half the world knows not how the other half lies.

  George Herbert

  Lying, Half, World

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.319

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• Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.

  George Herbert

  Dog, Looks, Musk

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.246

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• Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

  George Herbert

  Grief, Soul, Sorrow

  Affliction (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• God sends a curst cow short horns.

  George Herbert

  Cows, Horns

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• A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears.

  George Herbert

  Heart, Broken, Tears

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

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• I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Way, Pleasure

  The lullings and the relishes of it. 'The Pearl', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• Music helps not the toothache.

  George Herbert

  Helping, Toothache

  Jacula Prudentum (published posthumously, 1651). This is probably an older proverb.

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• All truths are not to be told.

  George Herbert

  Truth

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.247

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• Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.

  George Herbert

  Prayer, Praying, Ends

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.15

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• If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

  George Herbert

  Pain, Joy, Deeds

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.18

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• If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.

  George Herbert

  Play, Toys, Fancy

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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.

  George Herbert

  Mind, Done, May

  George Herbert (1703). “The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue”, p.12

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• A piece of a Churchyard fits everybody.

  George Herbert

  Pieces, Fit

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.323

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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.

  George Herbert

  Law, Rooms, Action

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

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• Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

  George Herbert

  Men, Limbs, Proportion

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

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• Better a barefoot than none.

  George Herbert

  Barefoot

  George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Barnabas Oley (1848). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...”, p.250

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• The Jews spend at Easter.

  George Herbert

  Easter, Jew

  George Herbert, William Jerdan (1853). “The Works of the Rev. George Hebert”, p.380

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• If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.

  George Herbert

  Abundance, Enough, Stewards

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• Quick believers need broad shoulders.

  George Herbert

  Needs, Broads, Shoulders

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.293

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• The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
  All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.

  George Herbert

  Men, Beast, Forfeit

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• Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.

  George Herbert

  Law, Rooms, Action

  George Herbert (1838). “The Temple. Sacred poems and private ejaculations, etc”, p.195

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• To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
  [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]

  George Herbert

  Feet, Giving, Philanthropy

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