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• I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why.
  [I wept when I was born and every day explains why.]

  George Herbert

  Born

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• It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Hands, Walking

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.319

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• A great dowry is a bed full of brables.
  [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

  George Herbert

  Bed, Dowry

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• Without businesse debauchery.

  George Herbert

  Debauchery

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• Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Lying, Spring

  'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

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• By doing nothing we learne to do ill.

  George Herbert

  Doing Nothing, Ill

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

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• With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.

  George Herbert

  Live Well, Wells

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• When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.

  George Herbert

  Prayer, Done, Ready

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.294

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• That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

  George Herbert

  Dust, Flesh, Mortality

  George Herbert (1856). “The poetical works of George Herbert. Illustrated”, p.80

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• Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.

  George Herbert

  Friendship, Wine, Literature

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• Beare with evill, and expect good.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.341

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• Those that God loves, do not live long.

  George Herbert

  Death, Long, God Love

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.325

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• A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.

  George Herbert

  Men

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.332

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• Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son makes him a foole.

  George Herbert

  Son, Fats

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.337

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• He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.

  George Herbert

  Littles

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.303

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• Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

  George Herbert

  After Death

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.358

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• The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
  [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.]

  George Herbert

  War, Long, Enemy

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• Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more
  Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart;
  Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.

  George Herbert

  Sports, Heart, Gambling

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.102

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• Money wants no followers.

  George Herbert

  Money, Followers, Want

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

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• Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.

  George Herbert

  Men, Wrath, People

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.188

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• If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.

  George Herbert

  Daughter, Mother, Ovens

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

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• The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

  George Herbert

  Money, Love Of Money, Love Of Learning

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

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• More have repented speech then silence.
  [More have repented speech than silence.]

  George Herbert

  Silence, Speech

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• Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
  [Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.]

  George Herbert

  Pigs, Tails

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• Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music.

  George Herbert

  Angel, Sunday, Thinking

  George Herbert (1867). “The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations: With A Priest to the Temple, Or, The Country Parson”, p.14

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