George Herbert Quotes - Page 37

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• He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

  George Herbert

  Prayer, Ocean, Sea

  Jacula Prudentum (published posthumously, 1651).

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• This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked now as it was in the days of Plato, is, in simple truth, ten times more important to humanity than all the chemistry and physics, all the technical and indsutrial science that ever has been or ever will be discovered.

  George Herbert

  Plato, Knowledge, Science

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• Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.

  George Herbert

  Made, Trade

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.363

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• It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

  George Herbert

  Inferiority, Literature, Spirit

  George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Barnabas Oley (1848). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...”, p.298

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• A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

  George Herbert

  Garden, Body

  "The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel".

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• Money refused loose its brightness.

  George Herbert

  Brightness, Refuse

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• 'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'

  George Herbert

  Science, Devil, Way

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• The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.

  George Herbert

  School, Science, Acquisition

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• Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

  George Herbert

  Spiritual, Kings, Thee

  'The Elixir' (1633)

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• The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.

  George Herbert

  Love, Children, Smell

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• Was ever grief like mine?

  George Herbert

  Grief, Mines

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