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George Herbert (1593 – 1633)


English poet and orator.
George Herbert
He that endures is not overcome.
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Full Title : Jacula Prudentum : or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. : Selected By Mr. George Herbert
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With customes wee live well, but lawes undoe us.




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He that lives well is learned enough.
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The eye and religion can beare no jesting.
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Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert
Man is God's image; but a poor man is
Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard.
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Speake not of my debts, unlesse you mean to pay them.
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He that tells a secret is another's servant.
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Thursday come and the week's gone.
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[ Wo be to him that reads but one book.]




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It's more paine to doe nothing then something.
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[ The war is not don so long as my enemy lives.]
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An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
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He that blames would buy.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
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Hee hath no leisure who useth it not.
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Be what thou wouldst seem to be.
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[ There is a remedy for everything, could men find it.]
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Every mile is two in winter.


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