A penny spar’d is twice got.
GEORGE HERBERTA penny spar’d is twice got.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
GEORGE HERBERTEnvy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERTThe scalded head feares cold water.
GEORGE HERBERTIn solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
GEORGE HERBERTPrettiness dies first.
GEORGE HERBERTWho would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
GEORGE HERBERTTo a greedy eating horse a short halter.
GEORGE HERBERTMan is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that is angry at a feast is rude.
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.]
GEORGE HERBERTSkill and confidence are an unconquered army.
GEORGE HERBERTThe eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
GEORGE HERBERTThere is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
GEORGE HERBERTThe tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
GEORGE HERBERT