God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that staies does the businesse.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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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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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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In 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.
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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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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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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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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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The offender never pardons.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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