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This volume includes a selection of George Herbert's prose works, showcasing his diverse range of writing styles and themes.
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“Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.”
“Good service is a great inchantment.”
“Good words quench more then a bucket of water.”
“Good workemen are seldome rich.”
“Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.”
“Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.”
“Great businesses turne on a little pinne.”
“Great strokes make not sweete musick.”
“Greene wood makes a hott fire.”
“Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.”
“Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.”
“Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.”
“He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.”
“He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.”
“He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.”
“He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.”
“He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.”
“He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.”
“Lord! who hath praise enough?”
“Beauty drawes more then oxen.”
“Health without money is halfe an ague.”
“Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.”
“To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.”
“A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.”
“A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.”
“A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.”
“A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.”
“A faire death honours the whole life.”
“A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.”
“A good prayer is master of anothers purse.”
“A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule.”
“A house and a woman sute excellently.”
“A jade eates as much as a good horse.”
“A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.”
“A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]”
“A Lyons skin is never cheape.”
“He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.”
“He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.”
“He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.”
“He that goeth farre hath many encounters.”
“He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.”
“He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head.”
“He that hath lands hath quarrells.”
“He that hath little is the lesse durtie.”
“He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.”
“He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.”
“He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.”