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Help thyself, and God will help thee.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum #155 (1651)

No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum (1651) No. 499

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, #105 (1651)

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, #1146 (1651)

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, #141 (1651)

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, #170 (1651)

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, #196 (1651)

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, #290 (1651)

He that lies with dogs, riseth with fleas.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, #343 (1651)

Living well is the best revenge.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, #520 (1651)

God’s mill grinds slow, but sure.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, #747 (1651)

Poverty is no sin.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, #844 (1651)

Poverty is no sin.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, #844 (1651)

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, #87 (1651)

None knows the weight of another’s burden.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, #880 (1651)

Honor and profit lie not in one sack.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Outlandish Proverbs, #232 (1640)

He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Outlandish Proverbs, #343 (1640)

Everyone thinks his sack heaviest.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Outlandish Proverbs, #748 (1640)

Many things are lost for want of asking.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Outlandish Proverbs, #968 (1640)

A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Outlandish Proverbs, ch. 3 (1640)

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
The Temple, “The Church Porch,” (1633) Lines 77-78

Wit’s an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
The Temple, “The Church Porch,” l. 241 (1633)

Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
The Temple, “The Church Porch,” l. 307 (1633)

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee.

George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
The Temple, “The Church Porch,” ll.25-26 (1633)