George Herbert Quotes

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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame
But borrowed thence to light us thither.
Beauty and beauteous words should go together.

George Herbert
A long tongue is a signe of a short hand.
[A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

George Herbert
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
[The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]

George Herbert
When a friend askes, there is no to morrow.
[When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow.]

George Herbert
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.

George Herbert
He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.
[He that would be well needs not go from his own house.]

George Herbert
The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.
[The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both.]

George Herbert
Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son makes him a foole.

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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.

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
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

George Herbert
I envy no man's nightingale or spring;
Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King.

George Herbert
Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is.

George Herbert
There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.

George Herbert
From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever.
[From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]

George Herbert
If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.

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He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne.
[He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun.]

George Herbert
States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.

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Life without a friend is death without a witnesse.
[Life without a friend is death without a witness.]

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Give me simplicity, that I may live,
So live and like, that I may know Thy ways,
Know them and practise them: then shall I give
For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.

George Herbert
He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.

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God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

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

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It is better to be the head of the lizard than the tail of the lion.

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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.

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My body is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides: Each part may call the farthest, brother: For head with foot hath private smity, And both with moon and tides.

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A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears.

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O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!

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Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches.

George Herbert
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.

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