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Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).
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Man stole the fruit, but I must climb the tree.
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Man is one world, and hath
Another to attend him.
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Marry your son when you will; your daughter when you can.
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The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.
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The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house.
[The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.]
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If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always are!
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Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.
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I made a posy while the day ran by:
Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie
My life within this band.
But Time did beckon to the flowers, and they
By noon most cunningly did steal away,
And withered in my hand.
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If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.
[Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]
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Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart.
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He would adore my gifts instead of Me,
And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature:
So both should losers be.
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He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.
[He that would be well needs not go from his own house.]
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The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords
If when the soul unto the lines accords.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please;
All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie:
Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease;
Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is.
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Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
[Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]
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Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.
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If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.
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Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.
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A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears.
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There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.
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Born:
April 3, 1593
Died:
March 1, 1633
(aged 39)
Bio:
George Herbert was a Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest.
Known for:
The Temple (1633)
Poems of George Herbert
The country parson
The complete English poems
The English poems of George Herbert
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