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?
GEORGE HERBERTHe that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Weening is not measure.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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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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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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