He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
GEORGE HERBERTIn 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.
More George Herbert Quotes
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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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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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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