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• Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.

  George Herbert

  Lying, Thee

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.347

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• Prosperity lets goe the bridle.

  George Herbert

  Letting Go, Prosperity

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.351

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• The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.

  George Herbert

  Shoes

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.340

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• Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.

  George Herbert

  Water, Silence, Still Waters

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.297

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• The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.

  George Herbert

  Stealing, Sleeves, Geese

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.352

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• Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With Him mayst rise: That, as His death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.

  George Herbert

  Easter, Heart, Dust

  George Herbert, William Jerdan (1853). “The Works of the Rev. George Hebert”, p.41

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• Beauty draws more than oxen.

  George Herbert

  Beauty, Oxen, Draws

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.168

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• Half the world knows not how the other half lies.

  George Herbert

  Lying, Half, World

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.319

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• Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.

  George Herbert

  Dog, Looks, Musk

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.246

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• Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

  George Herbert

  Grief, Soul, Sorrow

  Affliction (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• God sends a curst cow short horns.

  George Herbert

  Cows, Horns

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• A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears.

  George Herbert

  Heart, Broken, Tears

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

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• I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Way, Pleasure

  The lullings and the relishes of it. 'The Pearl', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.

  George Herbert

  Clothes, Mind, Body

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• The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.

  George Herbert

  Dark, Names, Doubt

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• The fish adores the bait.

  George Herbert

  Bait, Adore, Fishes

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

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• Beauty drawes more then oxen.

  George Herbert

  Beauty, Oxen

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

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• Ill ware is never cheape.
  [Ill ware is never cheap.]

  George Herbert

  Business, Ill

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• In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell.

  George Herbert

  Bells, Bears, Handsomeness

  George Herbert, Edward Clarke LOWE (1867). “The Church Porch, :... [being the Introduction to the Poem Entitled “The Temple”]; with Notes; and a Selection of Latin Hymns for Sunday Use in Upper Forms, Edited by E. C. Lowe”, p.17

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• February makes a bridge and March breakes it.
  [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]

  George Herbert

  Bridges, March, February

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• Who is the honest man?
  He that doth still and strongly good pursue
  To God, his neighbor, and himself most true:
  Whom neither force nor fawning can
  Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

  George Herbert

  Honesty, Men, Giving

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.69

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• Man is all symmetry
  Full of proportions, one limb to another,
  And all to all the world besides;
  Each part may call the farthest, brother;
  For head with foot hath private amity
  And both with moons and tides.

  George Herbert

  Brother, Men, Moon

  George Herbert, “Man”

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• Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

  George Herbert

  Cake

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

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• The longest Day hath an Eueninge.

  George Herbert

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• A bad dog never sees the Wolfe.

  George Herbert

  Dog

  George Herbert (1846). “The Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.297, London : W. Pickering

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