God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
GEORGE HERBERTTrue beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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