Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that is angry at a feast is rude.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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