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He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out.
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Most things move th' under-jaw, the crocodile not. Most things sleep lying, th' elephant leans or stands.
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Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.
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Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.
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Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.
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But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild
At every word,
Methought I heard one calling, 'Child';
And I replied, 'My Lord.'
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Teach me, my God and King,
In all things thee to see
And what I do in any thing,
To do it as for thee..
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Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
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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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None knows the weight of another's burthen.
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Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!
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There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
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For thirty pence he did my death devise,
Who at three hundred did the ointment prize.
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It (my book) is a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed between God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus, my Master, in whose service I have now found perfect freedom.
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My meaning (dear Mother) is in these sonnets, to declare my resolution to be, that my poor abilities in poetry, shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory.
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Who goes to bed and does not pray,
Maketh two nights to every day.
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Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.
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I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
[I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]
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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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Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles.
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Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.
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They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).
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Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.
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Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
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When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.
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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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