George Herbert Quotes

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Ill ware is never cheap. Pleasing ware is half sold.

George Herbert
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).

George Herbert
One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants.
[One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants']

George Herbert
Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

George Herbert
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

George Herbert
Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.

George Herbert
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

George Herbert
Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.

George Herbert
Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is even in the grave, And thou must die.

George Herbert
Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men.
[Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]

George Herbert
When God at first made man,
Having a glass of blessings standing by;
Let us (said he) pour on him all we can:
Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie,
Contract into a span.

George Herbert
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

George Herbert
If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese.

George Herbert
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence.
[The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

George Herbert
Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.
[Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]

George Herbert
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.

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It costs more to doe ill then to doe well.
[It costs more to do ill than to do well.]

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Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.

George Herbert
I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.

George Herbert
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

George Herbert