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Men Quotes by George Herbert
- 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…
- Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
- Words are women, deeds are men.
- Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action.…
- There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
- Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were…
- A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
- Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,
- God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
- Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.
- O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!
- 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…
- The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal, glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gates…
- There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
- A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
- Hope is the poor man's bread.
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