Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
GEORGE HERBERTReligion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
More George Herbert Quotes
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Prettiness dies first.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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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.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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