George Herbert Quotes - Page 47

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• Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back.

  George Herbert

  Sad, Soul, Welcome

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• He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.

  George Herbert

  Believe

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• He that needs five thousand pound to live,
  Is full as poor as he that needs but five.

  George Herbert

  Needs, Pounds, Poor

  George Herbert (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of George Herbert (Illustrated)”, p.38, Delphi Classics

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• Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?

  George Herbert

  Heart

  George Herbert (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of George Herbert (Illustrated)”, p.223, Delphi Classics

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• Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.

  George Herbert

  Grace, Folly

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• But who does hawk at eagles with a dove?

  George Herbert

  Eagles, Doe, Hawks

  'The Sacrifice' (1633) l. 91

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• Be useful where thou livest.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Verse”, p.265

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• An ill deed cannot bring honor.

  George Herbert

  Honor, Deeds, Ill

  George Herbert (1877). “Beauties of Rev. George Herbert, A. M.”

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• Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.

  George Herbert

  Fire, May, Advantage

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.14

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• Let anger's fire be slow to burn.

  George Herbert

  Fire

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• Would it even be possible to add a "suggested wallpaper" feature that analyzes your favored walls and shows similar ones?

  George Herbert

  Wall, Add, Shows

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• Punishment is lame, but it comes.

  George Herbert

  Punishment, Lame

  George Herbert (1836). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple”, p.149

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• A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

  George Herbert

  Memories, Men, Rocks

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.185

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• Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

  George Herbert

  Truth, Teeth, Heels

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.278

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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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• Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

  George Herbert

  God, Wrath, Literature

  'Discipline', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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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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• The market is the best garden.

  George Herbert

  Garden, Gardening

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

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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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• One enemy is too much.

  George Herbert

  Enemy, Too Much

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.260

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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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• Pleasing ware is half sold.

  George Herbert

  Wise, Wisdom, Half

  George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.302

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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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• Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.

  George Herbert

  Gold, Locks

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