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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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“Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.”
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“Soft and faire goes farre.”
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“Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.”
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“Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.”
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“Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.”
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“Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.”
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“Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.”
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“Speake not of a dead man at the table.”
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“States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.”
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“Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.”
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“Talking payes no toll.”
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“That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.”
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“That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.”
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“The absent partie is still faultie.”
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“The back-doore robs the house.”
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“The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.”
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“The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.”
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“The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.”
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“The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.
[The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both.]”
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“The bit that one eates, no friend makes.”
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“The body is more drest then the soule.”
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“The Catt sees not the mouse ever.”
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“The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.”
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“The chiefe boxe of health is time.”
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“The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.”
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“The cholerick man never wants woe.”
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“The comforters head never akes.”
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“The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.”
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“The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.”
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“The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.”
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“The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.”
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“The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.”
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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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“The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.”
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“The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.”
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“The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.”
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“The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.”
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“The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.”
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“The Fox knowes much, but more he that catcheth him.”
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“The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.”
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“The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.”
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“The goate must browse where she is tyed.”
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“The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.”
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“The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.”
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“The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.”
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“The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.”
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“The life of spies is to know, not bee known.”
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“The March sunne raises but dissolves not.”
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“The morning Sunne never lasts a day.”
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“The Mr. absent, and the house dead.”
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