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«Death is still working like a mole, / And digs my grave at each remove.»
Author: George Herbert (Clergyman, Poet) | Keywords: digs, mole, moles, The Mole
«In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.»
Author: George Herbert (Clergyman, Poet) | Keywords: easiness
«Lord, how can man preach thy eternal word? / He is a brittle crazy glass: / Yet in thy Temple thou dost him afford / This glorious and transcendent place, / To be a window, through thy grace.»
«One enemy is too much.»
«One sword keeps another in the sheath.»
Author: George Herbert (Clergyman, Poet) | Keywords: sheath
«Only a sweet and virtuous soul, / Like seasoned timber, never gives; / But though the whole world turn to coal, / Then chiefly lives.»
Author: George Herbert (Clergyman, Poet) | Keywords: coal, timber
«Time is the rider that breaks youth.»
Author: George Herbert (Clergyman, Poet) | About: Time
«When God at first made man, / Having a glass of blessings standing by, / Let us (said he) pour on him all we can: / Let the world's riches, which dispers?d lie, / Contract into a span.»
Author: George Herbert (Clergyman, Poet) | Keywords: contract, span
«Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand»
Author: George Herbert (Clergyman, Poet) | Keywords: tiptoe, tiptoed
«The law is not the same morning and night»

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