Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Quotes

• Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Truth, Purpose, Imbeciles

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• A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Horse, World, Riders

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• Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Infidelity, Body, Faces

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• Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Christian, Atheist, Believe

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• Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Life, Sleep, Nurse

  "To his Mistress for her True Picture". Line 11,

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• In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Men, Smell, Lamps

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• The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Exercise, Cheater, Play

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