Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
GEORGE HERBERTReligion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
More George Herbert Quotes
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No Alchymy to saving.
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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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.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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The offender never pardons.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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When 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.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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