"The best mirror is an old friend."
"I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King."
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Source: George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.52
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