Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
GEORGE HERBERTWhen thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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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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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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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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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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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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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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