Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
GEORGE HERBERTWater, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
GEORGE HERBERTLove without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
GEORGE HERBERTEvery one is witty for his owne purpose.
GEORGE HERBERTA poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
GEORGE HERBERTA dead Bee maketh no Hony.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
GEORGE HERBERTThe cholerick man never wants woe.
GEORGE HERBERTWhen thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
GEORGE HERBERTWith customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
GEORGE HERBERTAll that shakes falles not.
GEORGE HERBERTThe wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
GEORGE HERBERTGod is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
GEORGE HERBERTNever was strumpet faire.
GEORGE HERBERTThe Mr. absent, and the house dead.
GEORGE HERBERTTrue beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
GEORGE HERBERTIt’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
GEORGE HERBERT