Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERTEnvy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERTIn a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
GEORGE HERBERTGood words are worth much, and cost little.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that staies does the businesse.
GEORGE HERBERTWe live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
GEORGE HERBERTTrue beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
GEORGE HERBERTThe Mr. absent, and the house dead.
GEORGE HERBERTWith customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
GEORGE HERBERTThe best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
GEORGE HERBERTEvery one fastens where there is gaine.
GEORGE HERBERTAstrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
GEORGE HERBERTA little labour, much health.
GEORGE HERBERTGamsters and race-horses never last long.
GEORGE HERBERTIf folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
GEORGE HERBERTIt’s not good fishing before the net.
GEORGE HERBERTDrink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
GEORGE HERBERT