George Herbert

Puzzles

• Living well is the best ___.
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• Love and a cough cannot be ___.
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• Every mile is two in ___.
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• The best ___ is an old friend.
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• Only the ___ knows where the shoe pinches.
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• He who cannot ___ others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass.
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• Some men dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay ___ and do them.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to George Herbert?

  • → A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.
  • → It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
  • → If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
  • → He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to George Herbert.

  • → United we stand, divided we fall.
  • → Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no lies.
  • → Woe be to him that reads but one book.
  • → He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to George Herbert.

  • → Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
  • → Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
  • → The eyes have one language everywhere.
  • → What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to George Herbert. Which one?

  • → It is better to be alone than in bad company.
  • → We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
  • → A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
  • → The offender never pardons.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to George Herbert?

  • → None knows the weight of another's burden.
  • → The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
  • → A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.
  • → When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to George Herbert?

  • → None knows the weight of another's burden.
  • → A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
  • → Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
  • → Faint heart never won fair lady.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to George Herbert.

  • → Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
  • → The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
  • → Calamity is the test of integrity.
  • → True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
  
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• One of the following quotations belongs to George Herbert. Which one?

  • → None knows the weight of another's burden.
  • → Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
  • → A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.
  • → True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
  
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• Can you guess which one of these belongs to George Herbert?

  • → There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
  • → Never promise more than you can perform.
  • → I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken.
  • → Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
  
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• Try to identify the quote attributed to George Herbert.

  • → The shortest answer is doing.
  • → Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
  • → Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
  • → Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.
  
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