George Herbert - Man Quotes

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Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay and honey run.

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Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

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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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Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

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Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
[Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]

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Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

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Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

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For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

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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.]

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

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

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

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Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

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

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Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]

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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.]

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God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,

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Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.

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

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Who is the honest man?
He that doth still and strongly good pursue
To God, his neighbor, and himself most true:
Whom neither force nor fawning can
Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

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Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe,
Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine?
I know thy parentage is base and low:
Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.

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

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Man stole the fruit, but I must climb the tree.

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Man is God's image; but a poor man is
Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard.

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Man is one world, and hath
Another to attend him.

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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.

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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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