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 Law is not the same at morning and at night.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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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 first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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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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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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