World Quotes by George Herbert

Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.

— George Herbert

The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.

— George Herbert

Do well and right and let the world sink.

— George Herbert

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

— George Herbert

Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

— George Herbert

There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.

— George Herbert

Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.

— George Herbert

He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.

— George Herbert

Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).

— George Herbert

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

— George Herbert

In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to…

— George Herbert

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.

— George Herbert

Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that…

— George Herbert

The plain message physical science has for the world at large is this, that were our political and social and moral devices…

— George Herbert

Man is all symmetry Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides; Each part may call…

— George Herbert

When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let…

— George Herbert

This world is nothing except it tend to another.

— George Herbert

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

— George Herbert

Half the world knows not how the other half lies.

— George Herbert

The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.

— George Herbert

If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.

— George Herbert