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This book includes a selection of George Herbert's religious and devotional poetry, showcasing his contemplative and spiritual themes. It is a compilation of his most renowned works, offering insight into his theological and philosophical views.
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“Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.”
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“Fine words dresse ill deedes.”
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“Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.”
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“Gifts enter every where without a wimble.”
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“God comes to see without a bell.”
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“God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.”
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“God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.”
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“Good is the mora that makes all sure.”
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“Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.”
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“Great trees are good for nothing but shade.”
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“He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.”
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“The fish adores the bait.”
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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.”
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“Money wants no followers.”
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“The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.”
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“A child correct behind and not before.”
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“A drunkards purse is a bottle.”
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“A full belly neither fights nor flies well.”
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“A gift much expected is paid, not given.”
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“A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.”
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“A good pay-master starts not at assurances.”
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“A little and good fills the trencher.”
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“A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.”
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“He that contemplates hath a day without night.”
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“He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.”
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“He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.”
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“He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.”
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“He that is angry at a feast is rude.”
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“He that is once borne, once must dy.”
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“He that lives most dies most.”
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“He that marries late, marries ill.”
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“He that once deceives is ever suspected.”
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“He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy.”
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“He that riseth first, is first drest.”
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“He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.”
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“He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.”
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“He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.”
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“He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.”
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“He that will be surety, shall pay.”
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“He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.”
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“Heresie is the school of pride.”
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“Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.”
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“I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.”
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“Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.”
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“Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.”
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“In a good house all is quickly ready.”
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“In the kingdome of a cheater the wallet is carried before.”
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“In time comes he whom God sends.”
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“It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.”
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“It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.”
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