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• Could have recovered greenness?

  George Herbert

  'The Flower' (1633)

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• Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.

  George Herbert

  Grief, Snow, May

  George Herbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1855). “The Poetical Works of G. H. With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, by ... R. A. Willmott”, p.207

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• Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.

  George Herbert

  Law, Draws, Cables

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of George Herbert ...”, p.107

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• Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
  Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
  As fair as ever and as fit to use;
  So both the flower doth stay and honey run.

  George Herbert

  Running, Flower, Men

  George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.121

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• A verse may find him, who a sermon flies,
  And turn delight into a sacrifice.

  George Herbert

  Sacrifice, Delight, May

  "The Temple. Sacred poems and private ejaculations, etc".

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• A good digestion turneth all to health.

  George Herbert

  Ayurveda, Digestion, Good Digestion

  The Temple 'The Church Porch' (1633)

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• Advise none to marry or go to war.

  George Herbert

  War, Advice, Advise

  George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.309

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• A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

  George Herbert

  Guests, Conversation, Miscellaneous

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.13

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• Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.

  George Herbert

  Years, Clothes, Endurance

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.248

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• A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

  George Herbert

  Tools, Quarrels, Workmen

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• Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.

  George Herbert

  Wisdom, Treasure, Speak

  'The Church Porch' (1633) st. 72

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• Music helps not the toothache.

  George Herbert

  Helping, Toothache

  Jacula Prudentum (published posthumously, 1651). This is probably an older proverb.

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• All truths are not to be told.

  George Herbert

  Truth

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.247

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• Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.

  George Herbert

  Prayer, Praying, Ends

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.15

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• If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

  George Herbert

  Pain, Joy, Deeds

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.18

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• If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.

  George Herbert

  Play, Toys, Fancy

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• Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

  George Herbert

  Mind, Done, May

  George Herbert (1703). “The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue”, p.12

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• A piece of a Churchyard fits everybody.

  George Herbert

  Pieces, Fit

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

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• A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.

  George Herbert

  Law, Rooms, Action

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

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• Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

  George Herbert

  Men, Limbs, Proportion

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

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• Better a barefoot than none.

  George Herbert

  Barefoot

  George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Barnabas Oley (1848). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...”, p.250

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• The Jews spend at Easter.

  George Herbert

  Easter, Jew

  George Herbert, William Jerdan (1853). “The Works of the Rev. George Hebert”, p.380

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• If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.

  George Herbert

  Abundance, Enough, Stewards

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• Quick believers need broad shoulders.

  George Herbert

  Needs, Broads, Shoulders

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.293

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• The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
  All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.

  George Herbert

  Men, Beast, Forfeit

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