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• 'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'

  George Herbert

  Science, Devil, Way

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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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• The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.

  George Herbert

  School, Science, Acquisition

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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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• Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

  George Herbert

  Spiritual, Kings, Thee

  'The Elixir' (1633)

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• The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.

  George Herbert

  Love, Children, Smell

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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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• Was ever grief like mine?

  George Herbert

  Grief, Mines

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.24

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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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• A good heart cannot lye

  George Herbert

  Love, Heart, Good Heart

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.354

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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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• Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee.

  George Herbert

  Faith, Running, Heart

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.65

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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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• Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.

  George Herbert

  Fear

  'The Size' (1633)

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• He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not.
  [He that doth what he should not shall feel what he would not.]

  George Herbert

  Should, Feels

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• He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.

  George Herbert

  Woods

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

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• He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.

  George Herbert

  Giving, Suffering, Dies

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

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• He that gives me small gifts would have me live.

  George Herbert

  Giving, Small Gifts, Give Me

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey (1868). “The Poetical Works of George Herbert: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes”, p.322

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• He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it.
  [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]

  George Herbert

  Eye, Bees, Loses

  George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse”, p.337, London : Frederick Warne and Company, [18--?]

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• He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head.

  George Herbert

  Bosoms

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.343

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• He that hath little is the lesse durtie.

  George Herbert

  Littles

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.337

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