George Herbert Quotes

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Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.

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The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.

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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after.
[Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]

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

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He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.
[He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]

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As flames do work and wind when they ascend,
So did I weave myself into the sense.

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'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'

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

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The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.

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Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.

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The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal, glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope; Blessings are plentiful and rife. More plentiful than hope.

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A man that looks on glass,
On it may stay his eye;
Or if he pleaseth, through it pass,
And then the heaven espy.

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Good words are worth much, and cost little.

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He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife.
[He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]

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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

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Away; take heed:
I will abroad.
Call in thy death's-head there: tie up thy fears.

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Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.

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God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.

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Man is all symmetrie,
Full of proportions, one limbe to another,
And all to all the world besides:
Each part may call the farthest, brother:
For head with foot hath privite amitie,
And both with moons and tides.

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Oh that I were an orange-tree,
That busy plant!
Then I should ever laden be,
And never want
Some fruit for Him that dressed me.

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