He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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More George Herbert Quotes
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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The offender never pardons.
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