George Herbert Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by George Herbert:
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
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Be thrifty, but not covetous.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
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A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
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Never was a miser a brave soul.
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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
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He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
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Life is half spent before we know what it is.
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Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
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One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
~George Herbert
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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
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Punishment is lame, but it comes.
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
~George Herbert
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
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One sword keeps another in the sheath.
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The eyes have one language everywhere.
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Night is the mother of counsels.
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War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
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Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
~George Herbert
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The resolved mind hath no cares.
~George Herbert
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The offender never pardons.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
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The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
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There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
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It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
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None knows the weight of another's burden.
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Love and a cough cannot be hid.
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The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
~George Herbert
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The shortest answer is doing.
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He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
~George Herbert
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He hath no leisure who useth it not.
~George Herbert
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Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
~George Herbert
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Spend not on hopes.
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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
~George Herbert
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There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
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Living well is the best revenge.
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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
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Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
~George Herbert
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