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 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 HERBERTThe reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
GEORGE HERBERTHe that chastens one, chastens 20.
GEORGE HERBERTThe first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
GEORGE HERBERTOf the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
GEORGE HERBERTA fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
GEORGE HERBERTHee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
GEORGE HERBERTReason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
GEORGE HERBERTThe honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
GEORGE HERBERTNone knows the weight of another’s burden.
GEORGE HERBERTThe miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
GEORGE HERBERTA Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
GEORGE HERBERTBetter speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
GEORGE HERBERTLove without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
GEORGE HERBERTHe that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
GEORGE HERBERT