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Inspirational Quotes by George Herbert

98 Inspirational quotes by George Herbert

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Night is a time to review the day’s work, as Herbert suggests. He points out that bells ring for others while staying silent themselves, and that a crooked log can still make a straight fire. These images remind us to reflect, notice contradictions, and find simple solutions.

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The wind in ones face makes one wise.

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To the counsel of fools a wooden bell.

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That is gold which is worth gold.

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Step by step the ladder is ascended.

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Pleasing ware is half sold.

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He that respects not is not respected.

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God sees hearts as we see faces.

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All things require skill but an appetite.

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Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.

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Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.

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A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.

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A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

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Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

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Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.

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A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.

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A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.

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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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Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.

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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.

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You cannot know wine by the barrell.

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Advise none to marry or go to war.

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Lend only what you can afford to lose.

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Where there is peace, God is.

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God's mill grinds slow, but sure.

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Do well and right and let the world sink.

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Trust not one night's ice.

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After so many deaths I live and write;

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A great ship asks deep water.

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A good digestion turneth all to health.

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Stay a little and news will find you.

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Good and quickly seldom meet.

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When war begins, then hell openeth.

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Take the gentle path.

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Destiny is always dark.

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A good heart cannot lye

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One flower makes no garland.

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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.

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Could have recovered greenness?

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God provides for him that trusteth.

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A crooked log makes a strait fire.

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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.

Beare with evill, and expect good.

In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.]

By all means use some time to be alone, salute thyself, see what thy soul doth wear.

Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).

If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell.

Weight justly and sell dearely.

Could have recovered greenness?

In every country dogges bite.

The back-doore robs the house.

In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell.

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]

None saies his Garner is full.