George Herbert Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

  George Herbert

  Pain, Wine, Body

  George Herbert (1809). “Herbert's Poems: with his Country Parson. A new edition to which is prefixed, the life of the author; from I. Walton”, p.78

• I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Way, Pleasure

  The lullings and the relishes of it. 'The Pearl', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

• Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more
  Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart;
  Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.

  George Herbert

  Sports, Heart, Gambling

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.102

• A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.

  George Herbert

  Long, Enough, Pleasure

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.357

• In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.

  George Herbert

  War, Men, Hunting

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.326

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