George Herbert Quotes

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• If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
• 'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper…
• But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no…
• Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And…
• The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity...
• If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always…
• He hath no leisure who useth it not.
• We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
• Stay a little and news will find you.
• Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
• Living well is the best revenge.
• Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee
• The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
• Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
• The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.
• Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.
• Be thrifty, but not covetous.
• A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
• Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
• Was ever grief like mine?

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