Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
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“The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The life of man is a winter way.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan
“The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“There are more men threatned then stricken. [There are more men threatened than stricken.]”
“There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan
“There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
“Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert: Prose
“To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
“To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
“When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.”
“A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.”
Source: The remains of ... George Herbert
“Hope is the poor man's bread.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Words are women, deeds are men.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations
“There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan
“A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.”
“God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.”
Source: Seven Whole Days to Praise Our God: An Arrangement of George Herbert's Poems for Christian Meditation
“Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
Source: The Works of George Herbert: Poems
Source: The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations