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• Take the gentle path.

  George Herbert

  Healing, Path, Gentle

  'Discipline', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• The Catt sees not the mouse ever.

  George Herbert

  Mice

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.345

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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.

  George Herbert

  Mistake, Literature, Digestion

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• By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.

  George Herbert

  Past, Thread, Needles

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.331

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• Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.

  George Herbert

  Ocean, Sea, Land

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.340

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• If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis.

  George Herbert

  Gold, Ifs

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.254

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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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• 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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• Good & quickly seldome meete.

  George Herbert

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• Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter.

  George Herbert

  Matter

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.336

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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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• Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.

  George Herbert

  Angel, Sunday, Blessing

  George Herbert (1853). “The works of the Rev. George Herbert: with remarks on his writings, and a sketch of his life”, p.47

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• Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).

  George Herbert

  Lasts, Ends, Particular

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.331

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• Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

  George Herbert

  Dry, Tempest, Slander

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

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• Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after.
  [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]

  George Herbert

  Kings, Years, Void

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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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• 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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• Without businesse debauchery.

  George Herbert

  Debauchery

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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