George Herbert Quotes

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He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out.

George Herbert
Most things move th' under-jaw, the crocodile not. Most things sleep lying, th' elephant leans or stands.

George Herbert
Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.

George Herbert
Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.

George Herbert
Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.

George Herbert
But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild
At every word,
Methought I heard one calling, 'Child';
And I replied, 'My Lord.'

George Herbert
Teach me, my God and King,
In all things thee to see
And what I do in any thing,
To do it as for thee..

George Herbert
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.

George Herbert
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.

George Herbert
None knows the weight of another's burthen.

George Herbert
Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!

George Herbert
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

George Herbert
For thirty pence he did my death devise,
Who at three hundred did the ointment prize.

George Herbert
It (my book) is a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed between God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus, my Master, in whose service I have now found perfect freedom.

George Herbert
My meaning (dear Mother) is in these sonnets, to declare my resolution to be, that my poor abilities in poetry, shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory.

George Herbert
Who goes to bed and does not pray,
Maketh two nights to every day.

George Herbert
Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

George Herbert
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
[I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]

George Herbert
When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

George Herbert
Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles.

George Herbert
Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.

George Herbert
They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).

George Herbert
Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.

George Herbert
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

George Herbert
When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.

George Herbert