George Herbert - Day Quotes

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

George Herbert
I made a posy while the day ran by:
Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie
My life within this band.
But Time did beckon to the flowers, and they
By noon most cunningly did steal away,
And withered in my hand.

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Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky,
The dew shall weep thy fall to-night;
For thou must die.

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I got me flowers to strew Thy way;
I got me boughs off many a tree:
But Thou wast up by break of day,
And brought'st Thy sweets along with Thee.

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But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.

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

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

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Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.

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What one day gives us, another takes away from us.
[What one day gives, another takes away from us.]

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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.

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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.

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I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why.
[I wept when I was born and every day explains why.]

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Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.

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