The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
GEORGE HERBERTIn the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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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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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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