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.
GEORGE HERBERTThe eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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A little labour, much health.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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