George Herbert Quotes - Page 24

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• A good heart cannot lye

  George Herbert

  Love, Heart, Good Heart

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.354

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• The market is the best garden.

  George Herbert

  Garden, Gardening

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.245

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• Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee.

  George Herbert

  Faith, Running, Heart

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.65

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• One enemy is too much.

  George Herbert

  Enemy, Too Much

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.260

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• Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.

  George Herbert

  Fear

  'The Size' (1633)

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• In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

  George Herbert

  Mean, Solitude, Use

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• Pleasing ware is half sold.

  George Herbert

  Wise, Wisdom, Half

  George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.302

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• Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.

  George Herbert

  Wise, Wisdom, Night

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.18

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• Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.

  George Herbert

  Gold, Locks

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• He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

  George Herbert

  Dog, Lying, Peer Pressure

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.302

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• Who says that fictions only and false hair
  Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
  Is all good structure in a winding stair?

  George Herbert

  Hair, Fiction, Structure

  'Jordan (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?

  George Herbert

  Shepherds, Needs, Want

  'The 23rd Psalm' (1633).

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• Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, / The bridal of the earth and sky.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Sky, Earth

  'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

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• The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords
  If when the soul unto the lines accords.

  George Herbert

  Hymns, Soul, Lines

  "A True Hymn". "The Temple". Book by George Herbert, 1633.

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• Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.

  George Herbert

  Men, World

  'Man' (1633)

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• Words are women, deeds are men.

  George Herbert

  Women, Men, Deeds

  George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations”, p.329

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• The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

  George Herbert

  Lions, Fierce, Paint

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.301

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• Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Giving, Soul

  'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

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• Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

  George Herbert

  Drink, Wit

  George Herbert (1871). “The English Poems of George Herbert: Together with His Collection of Proverbs Entitled Jacula Prudentum”, p.227

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• 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 in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.

  George Herbert

  Business, Winning, Men

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• Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.

  George Herbert

  Lying, Honor, Gains

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• Great business turns on a little pin.

  George Herbert

  Littles, Great Business, Pins

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.245

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• Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.

  George Herbert

  Men, Heaven, Ordinary

  'Prayer: Prayer the Church's banquet' (1633)

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• Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.

  George Herbert

  Stars, Church Bells, Blood

  'Prayer: Prayer the Church's banquet' (1633)

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• After so many deaths I live and write.

  George Herbert

  Writing

  'The Flower' (1633)

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