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Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.
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He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.
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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.]
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The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.
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When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.
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Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,
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States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.
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Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.
[Life without a friend is death without a witness.]
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Give me simplicity, that I may live,
So live and like, that I may know Thy ways,
Know them and practise them: then shall I give
For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.
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He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.
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God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.
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One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants.
[One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants']
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It is better to be the head of the lizard than the tail of the lion.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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My body is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides: Each part may call the farthest, brother: For head with foot hath private smity, And both with moon and tides.
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He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne.
[He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun.]
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe.
[He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.]
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The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
[The little cannot be great unless he devour many.]
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You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.
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O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!
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Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches.
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A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears.
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When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
[When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.]
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The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.
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Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
[Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome.]
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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.
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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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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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