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• Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.

  George Herbert

  Fire, Smell, May

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

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• The Rich knowes not who is his friend.
  [The rich knows not who is his friend.]

  George Herbert

  Rich, Knows

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• To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.

  George Herbert

  Joy

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.338

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• Waight and measure take away strife.

  George Herbert

  Strife

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.325

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• Wee know not who lives or dies.

  George Herbert

  Knows, Dies

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.321

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• Weight justly and sell dearely.

  George Herbert

  Weight, Sells

  George Herbert (1846). “The Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.319, London : W. Pickering

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• Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.

  George Herbert

  Snow, Water, Pounds

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.323

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• Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
  Like season'd timbered, never gives;
  But though the whole world turn to coal,
  Then chiefly lives.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Giving, Soul

  'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

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• Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe,
  Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine?
  I know thy parentage is base and low:
  Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.

  George Herbert

  Art, Dirty, Men

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• He hath no leisure who useth it not.

  George Herbert

  Leisure

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.319

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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.

  George Herbert

  Witty, Laughter, Ignorance

  George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.9

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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.

  George Herbert

  Needs, Mirth, Sin

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.5

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• Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.

  George Herbert

  Hands, Gold, Sticks

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.8

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• Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

  George Herbert

  Fool, Hours, Wit

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.11

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• To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.

  George Herbert

  Sheep, Wind, Giving

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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• In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
  [In the husband wisdom, in the wife gentleness.]

  George Herbert

  Husband, Wife, Gentleness

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• A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

  George Herbert

  Wise, Men, Purpose

  George Herbert (1853). “The works of the rev. George Herbert, with remarks on his writings, and a sketch of his life, by W. Jerdan”, p.385

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• An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.

  George Herbert

  Names, Ill, Wounds

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.229

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• Anothers bread costs deare.

  George Herbert

  Cost, Bread

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

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• Be what thou wouldst seeme to be.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.351

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• Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).

  George Herbert

  House, Noise, Filth

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• Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.

  George Herbert

  Long, Lasts, Sides

  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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• Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.

  George Herbert

  Danger, Remedy

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.324

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• Drought never brought dearth.

  George Herbert

  Drought

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.267

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• Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.

  George Herbert

  Sleeves

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

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