George Herbert Quotes - Page 35

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• Great business turns on a little pin.

  George Herbert

  Littles, Great Business, Pins

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.245

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• Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.

  George Herbert

  Men, Heaven, Ordinary

  'Prayer: Prayer the Church's banquet' (1633)

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• Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.

  George Herbert

  Stars, Church Bells, Blood

  'Prayer: Prayer the Church's banquet' (1633)

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• After so many deaths I live and write.

  George Herbert

  Writing

  'The Flower' (1633)

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• Could have recovered greenness?

  George Herbert

  'The Flower' (1633)

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• Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.

  George Herbert

  Grief, Snow, May

  George Herbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1855). “The Poetical Works of G. H. With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, by ... R. A. Willmott”, p.207

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• Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.

  George Herbert

  Law, Draws, Cables

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of George Herbert ...”, p.107

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• Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
  Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
  As fair as ever and as fit to use;
  So both the flower doth stay and honey run.

  George Herbert

  Running, Flower, Men

  George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.121

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• A verse may find him, who a sermon flies,
  And turn delight into a sacrifice.

  George Herbert

  Sacrifice, Delight, May

  "The Temple. Sacred poems and private ejaculations, etc".

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• A good digestion turneth all to health.

  George Herbert

  Ayurveda, Digestion, Good Digestion

  The Temple 'The Church Porch' (1633)

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• Advise none to marry or go to war.

  George Herbert

  War, Advice, Advise

  George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.309

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• A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

  George Herbert

  Guests, Conversation, Miscellaneous

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.13

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• Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.

  George Herbert

  Years, Clothes, Endurance

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.248

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• A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

  George Herbert

  Tools, Quarrels, Workmen

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• Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.

  George Herbert

  Wisdom, Treasure, Speak

  'The Church Porch' (1633) st. 72

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• Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.

  George Herbert

  Smell, Taste, Salt

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• True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.

  George Herbert

  Beauty, Flames, Borrowed

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• A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.

  George Herbert

  Hands, Bird, Feathers

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

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• When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven.

  George Herbert

  Art, Feet, Heaven

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• No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.

  George Herbert

  Temples, Built, Hard

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.349

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• Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Song, Heart

  George Herbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1855). “The Poetical Works of G. H. With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, by ... R. A. Willmott”, p.65

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• He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

  George Herbert

  Apples, Eating

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.5

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• Prosperity lets goe the bridle.

  George Herbert

  Letting Go, Prosperity

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.351

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• The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.

  George Herbert

  Shoes

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.340

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• Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.

  George Herbert

  Water, Silence, Still Waters

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.297

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