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• Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

  George Herbert

  Roots, Challenges, Storm

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• A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.

  George Herbert

  Dwarves, Two, Giants

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• Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.

  George Herbert

  Quality, Quarrels, Persons

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• Good and quickly seldom meet.

  George Herbert

  Haste

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.310

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• You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.353

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• Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

  George Herbert

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

  George Herbert

  Mom, Mother, First Day Of School

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• He that once deceives is ever suspected.

  George Herbert

  Deceiving

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.305

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• Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Water, Wife

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

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• Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.

  George Herbert

  Laughing, Wealth

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

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• A good bargaine is a pick-purse.
  [A good bargain is a pick-purse.]

  George Herbert

  Purses, Bargains, Picks

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• His bark is worse than his bite.

  George Herbert

  Wise, Wisdom, Bark

  "Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert". Book compiled by George Herbert et al., 1651.

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• Where your will is ready, your feet are light.

  George Herbert

  Light, Feet, Ready

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

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• Everyone thinks his sack heaviest.

  George Herbert

  Thinking, Perspective

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• In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.

  George Herbert

  Solitude, Multitudes, Thyself

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• The eyes have one language everywhere.

  George Herbert

  Eye, Vision, Language

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.272

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• Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

  George Herbert

  Life, Gains, Sometimes

  George Herbert (1853). “The works of the Rev. George Herbert: with remarks on his writings, and a sketch of his life”, p.380

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• A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

  George Herbert

  Compromise, Fats, Lawsuit

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• It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.

  George Herbert

  Funny Friend, Heaven, Hell

  "The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes".

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• The shortest answer is doing.

  George Herbert

  Life, Answers, Action

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.162

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• A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

  George Herbert

  Wise, Men, Care

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

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• An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

  George Herbert

  Taken, Men, Tongue

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.362

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• If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

  George Herbert

  Liberty, Libertarian, Donkey

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• There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.

  George Herbert

  Taken, Language, Ill

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.301

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• None knows the weight of another's burden.

  George Herbert

  Weight, Burden, Knows

  George Herbert (1871). “The English Poems of George Herbert: Together with His Collection of Proverbs Entitled Jacula Prudentum”, p.250

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