George Herbert Quotes - Page 29

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• Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.

  George Herbert

  Church, Altars, Conscience

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.347

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• Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.

  George Herbert

  Silent

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.346

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• Speake not of a dead man at the table.

  George Herbert

  Men, Tables, Dead Man

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

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• The body is more drest then the soule.

  George Herbert

  Body

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.360

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• The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.

  George Herbert

  Garden, Building

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.336

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• The chiefe boxe of health is time.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.360

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• The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.

  George Herbert

  Children, Fire, Heard

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.330

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• The cholerick man never wants woe.

  George Herbert

  Men, Want, Woe

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.342

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• The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1941). “The works of George Herbert”, Oxford University Press

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• The comforters head never akes.

  George Herbert

  Comforter

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.335

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• The command of custome is great.

  George Herbert

  Command

  George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.321

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• The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.

  George Herbert

  Deities, Benefits, Arguing

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.353

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• The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

  George Herbert

  Men, Self, Snow

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

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• The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.

  George Herbert

  Crow

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.338

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• The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.178

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• The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.

  George Herbert

  Young

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

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• The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.316

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• The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

  George Herbert

  Men, Void

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.373

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• The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.

  George Herbert

  Dog, Bones

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.338

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• The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.
  [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]

  George Herbert

  Dog, Meals, Ashes

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• The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
  [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

  George Herbert

  Needs, Tongue, Speak

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• The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
  [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]

  George Herbert

  Bait, Taste, Feels

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• The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.

  George Herbert

  Morning, Frost, Evening

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.311

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• The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.

  George Herbert

  Eye

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.322

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• The eye is bigger then the belly.
  [The eye is bigger than the belly.]

  George Herbert

  Eye, Bigger, Belly

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