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• Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.

  George Herbert

  Gossip, Frogs

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.328

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• Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.

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  Giving

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.324

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• Great businesses turne on a little pinne.

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  Littles, Great Business

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.351

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• Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.

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  Grows

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.328

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• Great paines quickly find ease.

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  Ease, Paine

  George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.308

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• Great strokes make not sweete musick.

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  Strokes

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.316

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• Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

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  Tree, Shade

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.309

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• Greene wood makes a hott fire.

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  Fire, Woods

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.357

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• Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

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  Mind, World

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• Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.

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  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.321

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• Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.

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  Heart, Hands

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.344

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• Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.

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  Bees, Reason, Heard

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.318

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• Hast comes not alone.

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  Not Alone

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.356

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• He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife.
  [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]

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  Knives, Giving, Littles

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• He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.

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  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.348

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• He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
  [He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]

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  Wells, Carrie

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• He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.

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  Sea, Suffering

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.350

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• He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.

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  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.317

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• He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.

  George Herbert

  Fists, Wedges

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.344

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• He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.

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  Shining

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.350

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• He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.

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  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.317

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• He plaies well that winnes.
  [He plays well that wins.]

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  Winning, Play, Wells

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• He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

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  Long, Waiting, Rope

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

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• He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.

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  Quitting, Wells

  George Herbert (1862). “The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse”

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• The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes.

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  Christian, Easter, Moors

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.252

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