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• Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.

  George Herbert

  Wise, Men, Together

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

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• Fooles give to please all but their owne.

  George Herbert

  Giving, Please

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

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• Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.

  George Herbert

  Frenzy

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.367

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• Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

  George Herbert

  Wish, Literature, Hell

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.146

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• The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

  George Herbert

  Taken, Literature, Holes

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.187

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• Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.

  George Herbert

  Knowledge, Grace, Guides

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 364, 1895.

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• A dwarf on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.

  George Herbert

  Teamwork, Dwarves, Two

  "The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall".

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• But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.

  George Herbert

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

  George Herbert

  Stupid, Taken, Science

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• We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

  George Herbert

  Age, Example, Needs

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

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• Stay a little and news will find you.

  George Herbert

  News, Littles

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.302

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• Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

  George Herbert

  Cutting, Kissing, Hands

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.300

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• Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

  George Herbert

  Editors, Clothes, Noblemen

  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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• Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

  George Herbert

  Truth, Teeth, Heels

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.278

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• Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

  George Herbert

  God, Wrath, Literature

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

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• The market is the best garden.

  George Herbert

  Garden, Gardening

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.245

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• One enemy is too much.

  George Herbert

  Enemy, Too Much

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.260

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• Pleasing ware is half sold.

  George Herbert

  Wise, Wisdom, Half

  George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.302

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• Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.

  George Herbert

  Gold, Locks

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• When God will, no winde but brings raine.

  George Herbert

  Gods Will

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

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• A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.

  George Herbert

  Long, Enough, Pleasure

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.357

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• Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.

  George Herbert

  Servant

  George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations”, p.334

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• Hee that repaires not a part, builds all.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.332

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• Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.

  George Herbert

  Grace, Folly

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• Talking payes no toll.

  George Herbert

  Talking, Tolls

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

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