Source: The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
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“All worldly joys go less To the one joy of doing kindnesses.”
Source: The Complete Poetry
“I live to shew his power, who once did bring My joyes to weep, and now my griefs to sing”
“Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guiltie of dust and sin.”
Source: The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
Source: The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
Source: The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
“True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.”
“Patience, time and money accommodate all things.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, by ... R. A. Willmott
“He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.”
Source: The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum
“A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.”
Source: Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor
“Better a bare foote then none.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A crooked log makes a strait fire.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“That is gold which is worth gold.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“A great ship asks deep water.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall
Source: Herbert's Poems: with his Country Parson. A new edition to which is prefixed, the life of the author; from I. Walton
“By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
Source: The Works of George Herbert: Poems
“Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert. Illustrated
“Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Prosperity lets goe the bridle.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.”
Source: Works: In Prose & Verse
Source: The Works of George Herbert: Poems
“The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
Source: The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening”
Source: Works: In Prose & Verse