George Herbert Quotes

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• Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie… Dove
• He pares his apple that will cleanly feed. Apple
• A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. Bred
• Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. Distance
• Better a bare foote then none. Bare
• Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes. Fire
• A crooked log makes a strait fire. Crooked
• That is gold which is worth gold. Funny
• A great ship asks deep water. Asks
• A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long. Coole
• Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy. Bed
• Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? Deafe
• 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… All
• By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured Been
• Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the… Advance
• Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. Inspirational
• Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies. Halfe
• That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust. All
• Praise the Sea, but keepe on land. Keepe
• Prosperity lets goe the bridle. Bridle

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