Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, by ... R. A. Willmott
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“A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Those that God loves, do not live long.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.”
Source: Works: In Prose & Verse
“A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall
“Gamsters and race-horses never last long.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall
“Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes
“In a long journey straw waighs.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]”
“Long jesting was never good.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.]”
“There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
Source: The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum