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

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

George Herbert
Grief, Physicians, Lawyer
George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.253

If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]

George Herbert
Grief, House, Folly

Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.

George Herbert
Grief, Snow, May
George Herbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1855). “The Poetical Works of G. H. With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, by ... R. A. Willmott”, p.207

Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

George Herbert
Grief, Soul, Sorrow
Affliction (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

Was ever grief like mine?

George Herbert
Grief, Mines
George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.24

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