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GEORGE HERBERT
Welsh poet
(1593 - 1633)
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A foole may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A full belly neither fights nor flies well.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A garden must be lookt unto and drest as the body.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A gentle houswife marres the houshold.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A gentlemans grayhound, and a salt-box; seeke them at the fire.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A gift much expected is paid, not given.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A good bargaine is a pick-purse.
  [A good bargain is a pick-purse.]
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A good heart cannot lye.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A good prayer is master of anothers purse.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A great dowry is a bed full of brables.
  [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A great ship askes deepe waters.
  [A great ship asks deep waters.]
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs : Ships]

A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A hatt is not made for one shower.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A Horse made, and a man to make.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A horse stumbles that hath foure legges.
  [A horse stumbles that has four legs.]
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A house and a woman sute excellently.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A hundred loade of thought will not pay one of debts.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A jade eates as much as a good horse.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.
  [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs : Wind]


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