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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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“The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.”
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“The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.”
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“The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.”
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“The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.”
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“The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.”
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“The table robbes more then a thiefe.”
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“The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.”
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“The tongue talkes at the heads cost.”
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“The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.”
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“The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.”
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“The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.”
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“The vertue of a coward is suspition.”
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“The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.”
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“Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill.”
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“There are more Physitians in health then drunkards.”
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“There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court.”
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“There come nought out of the sacke but what was there.”
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“There is more talke then trouble.”
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“There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.”
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“They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.”
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“They that are booted are not alwaies ready.”
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“They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).”
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“Thornes whiten yet doe nothing.”
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“Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers.”
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“Thursday come, and the week's gone.”
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“Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.”
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“Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.”
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“To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.”
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“To a great night, a great Lanthorne.”
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“To be too busie gets contempt.”
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“To buy deare is not bounty.”
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“To him that will, waies are not wanting.”
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“To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.”
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“To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.”
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“To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell.”
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“To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.”
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“To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.”
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“True praise rootes and spreedes.”
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“Two ill meales make the third a glutton.”
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“Ty it well, and let it goe.”
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“Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.”
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“Vertue never growes old.”
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“Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.”
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“Waight and measure take away strife.”
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“Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.”
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“Warre is deaths feast.”
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“Water a farre off quencheth not fire.”
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“We are fooles one to another.”
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“We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.”
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“Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.”
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