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Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking/ Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.


George Herbert

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One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
GEORGE HERBERT To build castles in Spain.
GEORGE HERBERT A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long. [A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long.]
GEORGE HERBERT Never was a miser a brave soul.
GEORGE HERBERT For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
GEORGE HERBERT In doing we learn.
GEORGE HERBERT Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep th...
GEORGE HERBERT Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
GEORGE HERBERT A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
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.
GEORGE HERBERT Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
GEORGE HERBERT One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
GEORGE HERBERT He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
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.
GEORGE HERBERT Night is the mother of counsels.
GEORGE HERBERT Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good dige...
GEORGE HERBERT A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
GEORGE HERBERT Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver ...
GEORGE HERBERT Spend not on hopes.
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.
GEORGE HERBERT No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by. [No sooner is a Temp...
GEORGE HERBERT Thou hast conquered, O Galilaean. [Lat., Vicisti, Galloloae.]
GEORGE HERBERT Who did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone? Had He life, or had He none? ...
GEORGE HERBERT A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. [A feather in hand is better than a bird in t...
GEORGE HERBERT Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
GEORGE HERBERT Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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.]
GEORGE HERBERT Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, ...
GEORGE HERBERT The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [The Friar preached against s...
GEORGE HERBERT Poverty is the mother of health.
GEORGE HERBERT Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. [Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away...
GEORGE HERBERT An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.
GEORGE HERBERT Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.
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.]
GEORGE HERBERT Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? [Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?]
GEORGE HERBERT Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
GEORGE HERBERT Art thou a magistrate? then be severe: If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd, Redeem ...
GEORGE HERBERT The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne. [The wolf must die in his own skin.]
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 ...
GEORGE HERBERT For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.
GEORGE HERBERT Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes. [Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.]
GEORGE HERBERT When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there ...
GEORGE HERBERT Prosperity lets goe the bridle. [Prosperity lets go the bridle.]
GEORGE HERBERT A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun ...
GEORGE HERBERT Stay a little and news will find you.
GEORGE HERBERT Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart ...
GEORGE HERBERT Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at th...
GEORGE HERBERT Better never begin than never make an end.
GEORGE HERBERT By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in...
GEORGE HERBERT In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
GEORGE HERBERT Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
GEORGE HERBERT Better a bare foote then none. [Better a barefoot than none.]
GEORGE HERBERT Woe be to him that reads but one book.
GEORGE HERBERT Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
GEORGE HERBERT Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whate...
GEORGE HERBERT Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
GEORGE HERBERT None knows the weight of another's burden.
GEORGE HERBERT War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
GEORGE HERBERT Love and a cough cannot be hid.
GEORGE HERBERT Life is half spent before we know what it is.
GEORGE HERBERT The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
GEORGE HERBERT Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
GEORGE HERBERT The offender never pardons.
GEORGE HERBERT Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
GEORGE HERBERT The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
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GEORGE HERBERT If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
GEORGE HERBERT A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
GEORGE HERBERT Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
GEORGE HERBERT Good words are worth much, and cost little.
GEORGE HERBERT There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
GEORGE HERBERT Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse; This book of starres lights to eternal blisse.
GEORGE HERBERT Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.
GEORGE HERBERT That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.
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GEORGE HERBERT Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late.
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GEORGE HERBERT Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God...
GEORGE HERBERT Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?
GEORGE HERBERT Every mile is two in winter.
GEORGE HERBERT Less at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance, Ma...
GEORGE HERBERT Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure ...
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GEORGE HERBERT To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]
GEORGE HERBERT To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.]
GEORGE HERBERT Time is the rider that breaks youth.
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GEORGE HERBERT Half of the world knows not how the other half lives.
GEORGE HERBERT The best mirror is an old friend.
GEORGE HERBERT You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
GEORGE HERBERT Storms make oaks take deeper root.
GEORGE HERBERT Hope is the poor man's bread.
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GEORGE HERBERT None knows the weight of another's burden.
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.]
GEORGE HERBERT The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
GEORGE HERBERT When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick o...
GEORGE HERBERT Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My musick shows...
GEORGE HERBERT Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before ...
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.
GEORGE HERBERT The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
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.
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