He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
GEORGE HERBERTReason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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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.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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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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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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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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