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  2. George Herbert - Wikipedia

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    George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) [1] was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. ... The quote "All may have, ...

  3. For Want of a Nail - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Franklin included a version in his Poor Richard's Almanack (1758), but over a century earlier, the poet George Herbert included it in a 1640 collection of aphorisms. [4] [5] [6] Predecessors include the following:

  4. The Altar (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem in a Baroque architectural frame from the 1670 edition of George Herbert's The Temple "The Altar" is a shaped poem by the Welsh-born poet and Anglican priest George Herbert, first published in his posthumous collection The Temple (1633).

  5. God helps those who help themselves - Wikipedia

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    A little earlier, George Herbert had included "Help thyself, and God will help thee" in his proverb collection, Jacula Prudentum (1651). [12] But it was the English political theorist Algernon Sidney who originated the now familiar wording, "God helps those who help themselves", [13] apparently the first exact rendering of the phrase.

  6. George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon - Wikipedia

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    George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, DL (26 June 1866 – 5 April 1923), styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

  7. The Collar (George Herbert) - Wikipedia

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    "The Collar" is a poem by Welsh poet George Herbert published in 1633, and is a part of a collection of poems within Herbert's book The Temple. [1] The poem depicts a man who is experiencing a loss of faith and feelings of anger over the commitment he has made to God.

  8. 'I' and the 'me' - Wikipedia

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    The ' I' and the 'me ' are terms central to the social philosophy of George Herbert Mead, one of the key influences on the development of the branch of sociology called symbolic interactionism. The terms refer to the psychology of the individual, where in Mead's understanding, the "me" is the socialized aspect of the person, and the "I" is the ...

  9. Thousand points of light - Wikipedia

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    On December 5, 2018, former U.S. President George W. Bush eulogized his father, late former U.S. President George H. W. Bush at the State Funeral held at the Washington National Cathedral. Part of that eulogy included the following text that made reference to his father's passion for public service.