Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
GEORGE HERBERTHeresie is the school of pride.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The wife is the key of the house.
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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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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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