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 HERBERTThe first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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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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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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