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

— George Herbert Jacula Prudentum (1651)

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A verse may finde him,who a sermon flies
And turns delight into a sacrifice.

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Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.

The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.

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

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Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

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