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GEORGE HERBERT
Welsh poet
(1593 - 1633)
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The slothful is the servant of the counters.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The Smith and his penny both are black.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Blacksmithing : Proverbs]

The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The soule needs few things, the body many.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The table robbes more then a thiefe.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The thorne comes forth with the point forwards.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The thread breakes, where it is weakest.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts.
  [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The tongue talkes at the heads cost.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The vertue of a coward is suspition.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
  [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.]
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The way is an ill neighbour.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
  [The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs : Shoemaking]

The wife is the key of the house.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The wind in ones face makes one wise.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst.
  [The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
      - Jacula Prudentum
        [Proverbs : Wine and Spirits]

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.
  [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs]

The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.
  [The wolf must die in his own skin.]
      - Jacula Prudentum [Proverbs : Punishment]


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