He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
GEORGE HERBERTNo profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
More George Herbert Quotes
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Prettiness dies first.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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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.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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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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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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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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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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