“Man is one world, and hath
Another to attend him.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Man, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.”
Section 2, member 1, subsection 2, A Digression of the nature of Spirits, bad Angels, or Devils, and how they cause Melancholy.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
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