George Herbert Quotes - Page 37

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• A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.
  [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]

  George Herbert

  Masters, Scholar, Paid

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• A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.

  George Herbert

  Mother, Winter, Fairs

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.371

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• A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
  [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]

  George Herbert

  House, Fats, Keepers

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• A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.

  George Herbert

  Throat, Flatterer

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.344

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• A full belly neither fights nor flies well.

  George Herbert

  Fighting, Belly, Wells

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.295

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• A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.

  George Herbert

  Judging, Good Judges

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.310

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• A good pay-master starts not at assurances.

  George Herbert

  Pay, Masters, Assurance

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.295

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• A good prayer is master of anothers purse.

  George Herbert

  Prayer, Purses, Masters

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.345

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• A hatt is not made for one shower.

  George Herbert

  Made, Showers

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• A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule.

  George Herbert

  Habit, Holy

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.348

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• A horse stumbles that hath foure legges.
  [A horse stumbles that has four legs.]

  George Herbert

  Horse, Legs, Four

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• A house and a woman sute excellently.

  George Herbert

  House

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

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• A jade eates as much as a good horse.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Jade, Good Horse

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

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• A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.328

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• A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately.

  George Herbert

  Ifs

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

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• A little and good fills the trencher.

  George Herbert

  Littles

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.307

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• A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.

  George Herbert

  Littles, Excuse, Given

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

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• A little labour, much health.

  George Herbert

  Littles, Labour

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.315

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• A long tongue is a signe of a short hand.
  [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

  George Herbert

  Hands, Long, Tongue

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.327

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• A Lyons skin is never cheape.

  George Herbert

  Skins

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.317

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• A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.

  George Herbert

  Men, Wells

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• He that chastens one, chastens 20.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert, Ann Pasternak Slater (1995). “The complete English works”

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• He that contemplates hath a day without night.

  George Herbert

  Night, Contemplating

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.310

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• He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.

  George Herbert

  World

  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.330

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• He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.

  George Herbert

  Men, Good Man, Way

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.364

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