George Herbert Quotes - Page 44

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• The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick.

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  Apothecary

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• The back-doore robs the house.

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  House

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.339

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• The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.

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  Gold

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.346

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• The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.

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  Want, Beast

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.327

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• The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.

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  Sports, Doe

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.355

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• The bit that one eates, no friend makes.

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  No Friends, Bits

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.321

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• The chiefe boxe of health is time.

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  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.360

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• The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.

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  Children, Fire, Heard

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.330

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• The cholerick man never wants woe.

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  Men, Want, Woe

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.342

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• The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.

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

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• The comforters head never akes.

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  Comforter

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.335

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• The command of custome is great.

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  Command

  George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.321

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• The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.

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  Deities, Benefits, Arguing

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

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• The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

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  Men, Self, Snow

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.326

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• The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.

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  Crow

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.338

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• The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.

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  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.178

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• The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.

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  Young

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.371

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• The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.

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  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.316

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• The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

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  Men, Void

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.373

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• The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.

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  Dog, Bones

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.338

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• The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.
  [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]

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  Dog, Meals, Ashes

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• The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
  [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

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  Needs, Tongue, Speak

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• The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
  [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]

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  Bait, Taste, Feels

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• The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.

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  Morning, Frost, Evening

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.311

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• The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.

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  Eye

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.322

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