Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
GEORGE HERBERTThe worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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Weening is not measure.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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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 life of man is a winter way.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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