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He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.


George Herbert

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GEORGE HERBERT Never was a miser a brave soul.
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GEORGE HERBERT One sword keeps another in the sheath.
GEORGE HERBERT There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
GEORGE HERBERT The eyes have one language everywhere.
GEORGE HERBERT Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
GEORGE HERBERT In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
GEORGE HERBERT He who has the pepper may season as he lists.
GEORGE HERBERT Be thrifty, but not covetous.
GEORGE HERBERT He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
GEORGE HERBERT Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
GEORGE HERBERT One enemy is too much.
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GEORGE HERBERT One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
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GEORGE HERBERT All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
GEORGE HERBERT Living well is the best revenge.
GEORGE HERBERT Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
GEORGE HERBERT It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
GEORGE HERBERT He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
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GEORGE HERBERT Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
GEORGE HERBERT A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.
GEORGE HERBERT A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
GEORGE HERBERT The resolved mind hath no cares.
GEORGE HERBERT A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
GEORGE HERBERT Comparisons are odious.
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GEORGE HERBERT Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
GEORGE HERBERT Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. [Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.]
GEORGE HERBERT Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
GEORGE HERBERT A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. [A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.]
GEORGE HERBERT Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERT Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy. [He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.]
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GEORGE HERBERT A little and good fills the trencher.
GEORGE HERBERT Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
GEORGE HERBERT A crooked log makes a strait fire [A crooked log makes a straight fire.]
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GEORGE HERBERT Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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GEORGE HERBERT You cannot know wine by the barrell. [You cannot know the wine by the barrel.]
GEORGE HERBERT A trade is better then service.
GEORGE HERBERT A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
GEORGE HERBERT February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]
GEORGE HERBERT Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer: Hast thou ...
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GEORGE HERBERT Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes. [Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
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GEORGE HERBERT Stay a little and news will find you.
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GEORGE HERBERT Better never begin than never make an end.
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GEORGE HERBERT Better a bare foote then none. [Better a barefoot than none.]
GEORGE HERBERT Woe be to him that reads but one book.
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GEORGE HERBERT The offender never pardons.
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GEORGE HERBERT The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings. [The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]
GEORGE HERBERT A great ship askes deepe waters. [A great ship asks deep waters.]
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GEORGE HERBERT Valour that parleys is near yielding.
GEORGE HERBERT Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.
GEORGE HERBERT Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
GEORGE HERBERT The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst. [The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
GEORGE HERBERT A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]
GEORGE HERBERT To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
GEORGE HERBERT You must loose a flie to catch a trout. [You must lose a fly to catch a trout.]
GEORGE HERBERT Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.]
GEORGE HERBERT A hundred load of worry will not pay an ounce of debt
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GEORGE HERBERT The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.
GEORGE HERBERT The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.
GEORGE HERBERT The cholerick man never wants woe.
GEORGE HERBERT The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
GEORGE HERBERT The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.
GEORGE HERBERT The chiefe boxe of health is time.
GEORGE HERBERT The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it.
GEORGE HERBERT The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.
GEORGE HERBERT The Catt sees not the mouse ever.
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GEORGE HERBERT The body is sooner drest then the soule.
GEORGE HERBERT The body is more drest then the soule.
GEORGE HERBERT The blind eate many a flie.
GEORGE HERBERT The bit that one eates, no friend makes.
GEORGE HERBERT The bird loves her nest.
GEORGE HERBERT The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love that of children.
GEORGE HERBERT The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.
GEORGE HERBERT The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.
GEORGE HERBERT The best mirrour is an old friend.
GEORGE HERBERT The best bred have the best portion.
GEORGE HERBERT The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.
GEORGE HERBERT The beades in the Hand, and the Divell in Capuch (or cape of the cloak).
GEORGE HERBERT The Bathe of the Blackamoor hath sworne not to whiten.
GEORGE HERBERT The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.
GEORGE HERBERT The back-doore robs the house.
GEORGE HERBERT The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick.
GEORGE HERBERT The absent partie is still faultie.
GEORGE HERBERT That's the best gowne that goes up and downe the house.
GEORGE HERBERT That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.
GEORGE HERBERT That which two will, takes effect.
GEORGE HERBERT That which sufficeth is not little.
GEORGE HERBERT That is not good language which all understand not.
GEORGE HERBERT Talking payes no toll.
GEORGE HERBERT Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
GEORGE HERBERT Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
GEORGE HERBERT Suffer and expect.
GEORGE HERBERT Such a Saint, such an offering.
GEORGE HERBERT Still fisheth he that catcheth one.
GEORGE HERBERT The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.
GEORGE HERBERT The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.
GEORGE HERBERT The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
GEORGE HERBERT The hole calls the thiefe.
GEORGE HERBERT The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile.
GEORGE HERBERT The hearts letter is read in the eyes.
GEORGE HERBERT The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.
GEORGE HERBERT The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.
GEORGE HERBERT The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
GEORGE HERBERT The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.]
GEORGE HERBERT The great would have none great and the little all little.
GEORGE HERBERT The great put the little on the hooke.
GEORGE HERBERT The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.
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