The eye will have his part.
GEORGE HERBERTThe eye will have his part.
GEORGE HERBERTThe Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
GEORGE HERBERTGod is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
GEORGE HERBERTHe is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
GEORGE HERBERTShips feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
GEORGE HERBERTThere are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
GEORGE HERBERTFrenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
GEORGE HERBERTHe is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that comes of a hen must scrape.
GEORGE HERBERTThe life of man is a winter way.
GEORGE HERBERTOnly a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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.
GEORGE HERBERTWith customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
GEORGE HERBERTSlander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
GEORGE HERBERTThou 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.
GEORGE HERBERT