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• Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.

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  Laughing

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.317

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• The house shows the owner.

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  House, Owners, Shows

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.139

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• HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose

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  Helping

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• There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

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  Inspirational, Greatness, Men

  "The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse".

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• Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

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  Courage, Danger

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• Hope is the poor man's bread.

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  Life, Hope, Food

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.306

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• He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

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  Doubt, Knows

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

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• Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.

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  Church Bells, Church, Bells

  George Herbert (1862). “The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse”

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• If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always are!

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  Science, Risk, Littles

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• By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.

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  Mean, Doors, House

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.7

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• Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

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  Lying, Heart, Men

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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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  Men, Literature, Might

  George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.327

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• One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

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  Sleep, Midnight, Three

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

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• Evening words are not like to morning.

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  Morning, Evening

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.294

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• Every bees hony is sweet.

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  Sweet, Bees

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

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• Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.

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  Ought

  George Herbert (1941). “The works of George Herbert”, Oxford University Press

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• Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.

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  Garden, Vines

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.364

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• Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.

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  Tree, Branches

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

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• Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.

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  Sheep

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.369

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• No love is foule, nor prison fair.

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  Love Is, Prison, Fairs

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.277

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• Nothing lasts but the Church.

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  Church, Lasts

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.312

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• One foole makes a hundred.

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  Hundred

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.341

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• One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.

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  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.228

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• One mouth doth nothing without another.

  George Herbert

  Mouths

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.323

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• Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

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  Modesty, Honour

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

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