George Herbert quotes - page 2

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. (George Herbert)
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee. View quote
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Love and a cough cannot be hid. View quote
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Many kiss the hand they wish cut off. View quote
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There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it. View quote
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The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. View quote
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Time is the rider that breaks youth. View quote
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Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies. View quote
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A great ship asks deep water. View quote
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The shortest answer is doing. View quote
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Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. (George Herbert)
His bark is worse than his bite. View quote
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When you are an anvil, hold you still when you are a hammer, strike your fill. View quote
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Be useful where thou livest. View quote
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Hope is the poor man's bread. View quote
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One enemy is too much. View quote
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Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns. View quote
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By no means run in debt take thine own measure. Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty. View quote
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He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas. View quote
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One sword keeps another in the sheath. View quote
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All truths are not to be told. (George Herbert)
When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink. View quote
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The worst speak something good if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Patience. View quote
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy. View quote
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Sundays observe think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music. View quote
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