I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
GEORGE HERBERTThe eye will have his part.
More George Herbert Quotes
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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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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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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