George Herbert Quotes - Page 18

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• He that makes a good war makes a good peace.

  George Herbert

  War, Good War

  'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

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• Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!

  George Herbert

  Prayer, Night, Two

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”

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• If folly were griefe every house would weepe.
  [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]

  George Herbert

  Grief, House, Folly

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• Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.

  George Herbert

  Ells, Inches, Ill

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.298

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• Ill vessels seldome miscarry.

  George Herbert

  Ill, Vessel

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.319

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• Mony refused looseth its brightnesse.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.338

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• No love is foule, nor prison fair.

  George Herbert

  Love Is, Prison, Fairs

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.277

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• Nothing lasts but the Church.

  George Herbert

  Church, Lasts

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.312

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• One foole makes a hundred.

  George Herbert

  Hundred

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.341

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• One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.228

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• One mouth doth nothing without another.

  George Herbert

  Mouths

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.323

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• Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.

  George Herbert

  Wind, Sides

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.331

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• Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Stalking, Foul

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.367

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• They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.

  George Herbert

  Long

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.356

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• They that are booted are not alwaies ready.

  George Herbert

  Ready

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.318

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• They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).

  George Herbert

  Men, Pay, Rich

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.369

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• They that know one another salute a farre off.

  George Herbert

  Salute, Knows

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

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• Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.

  George Herbert

  Men, Church, Ill

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.168

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• Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.

  George Herbert

  Stones, Herbs

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.339

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• Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.

  George Herbert

  Eye

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.359

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• Water a farre off quencheth not fire.

  George Herbert

  Fire, Water

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.335

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• Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.

  George Herbert

  Laughing

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.317

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• HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose

  George Herbert

  Helping

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• There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

  George Herbert

  Inspirational, Greatness, Men

  "The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse".

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• He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

  George Herbert

  Veins, Slides, Kind

  "The Temple". Poems by George Herbert, The Church Porch, Stanza 6, 1633.

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