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This volume includes a selection of George Herbert's prose works, showcasing his diverse range of writing styles and themes.
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“It's not good fishing before the net.”
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“Knowledge is no burden.”
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“Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.”
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“Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.”
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“Let none say, I will not drinke water.”
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“Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.”
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“Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.”
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“Losse embraceth shame.”
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“Love and businesse teach eloquence.”
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“Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse.”
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“Love makes one fitt for any work.”
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“Many friends in generall, one in speciall.”
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“Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.”
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“Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.”
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“Mony refused looseth its brightnesse.”
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“Much spends the traveller, more then the abider.”
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“Musick helps not the tooth-ach.”
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“Neither bribe nor loose thy right.”
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“Never had ill workeman good tooles.”
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“Never was strumpet faire.”
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“No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.”
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“None is borne Master.”
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“None is offended but by himselfe.”
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“None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.”
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“None saies his Garner is full.”
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“Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke.”
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“Nothing dries sooner then a teare.”
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“Nothing secure unlesse suspected.”
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“One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie.”
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“One foole makes a hundred.”
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“One foote is better then two crutches.”
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“One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.”
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“One stroke fells not an oke.”
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“Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.”
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“Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.”
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“Parsons are soules waggoners.”
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“Play with a foole at home, and he will play with you in the market.”
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“Praise a hill, but keepe below.”
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“Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.”
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“Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.”
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“Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders.”
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“Ready mony is a ready Medicine.”
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“Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.”
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“Rivers neede a spring.”
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“Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.”
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“Shee spins well that breedes her children.”
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“Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.”
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“Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney.”
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“Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted.”
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“Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.”
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