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• Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not.

  George Herbert

  Love, Faith, Clean

  'Affliction (1)' (1633) l. 65

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• Reason and speech we onely bring.

  George Herbert

  Speech, Reason

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.75

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• Give me simplicity, that I may live,
  So live and like, that I may know Thy ways,
  Know them and practise them: then shall I give
  For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.

  George Herbert

  Life, Giving, Simplicity

  George Herbert (1709). “The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue”, p.179

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• Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back.

  George Herbert

  Sad, Soul, Welcome

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• He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.

  George Herbert

  Believe

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• He that needs five thousand pound to live,
  Is full as poor as he that needs but five.

  George Herbert

  Needs, Pounds, Poor

  George Herbert (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of George Herbert (Illustrated)”, p.38, Delphi Classics

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• Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?

  George Herbert

  Heart

  George Herbert (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of George Herbert (Illustrated)”, p.223, Delphi Classics

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• But who does hawk at eagles with a dove?

  George Herbert

  Eagles, Doe, Hawks

  'The Sacrifice' (1633) l. 91

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• Be useful where thou livest.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Verse”, p.265

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• An ill deed cannot bring honor.

  George Herbert

  Honor, Deeds, Ill

  George Herbert (1877). “Beauties of Rev. George Herbert, A. M.”

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• Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.

  George Herbert

  Fire, May, Advantage

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.14

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• Let anger's fire be slow to burn.

  George Herbert

  Fire

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• Would it even be possible to add a "suggested wallpaper" feature that analyzes your favored walls and shows similar ones?

  George Herbert

  Wall, Add, Shows

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• Punishment is lame, but it comes.

  George Herbert

  Punishment, Lame

  George Herbert (1836). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple”, p.149

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• A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

  George Herbert

  Memories, Men, Rocks

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.185

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• Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.

  George Herbert

  Smell, Taste, Salt

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• True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.

  George Herbert

  Beauty, Flames, Borrowed

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• A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.

  George Herbert

  Hands, Bird, Feathers

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.344

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• When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven.

  George Herbert

  Art, Feet, Heaven

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• No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.

  George Herbert

  Temples, Built, Hard

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.349

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• Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Song, Heart

  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.65

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• He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

  George Herbert

  Apples, Eating

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.5

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• Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

  George Herbert

  Distance, Greatness, Envy

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.105

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• Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

  George Herbert

  Pain, Wine, Body

  George Herbert (1809). “Herbert's Poems: with his Country Parson. A new edition to which is prefixed, the life of the author; from I. Walton”, p.78

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• By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured

  George Herbert

  Killing, Supper, Galen

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

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