“Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
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“Half the world knows not how the other half lies.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.”
“He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations
“If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“This world is nothing except it tend to another.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
Source: The works of George Herbert
“The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.”
Source: The remains of ... George Herbert
“Do well and right and let the world sink.”
Source: Country Parson: His Character and Rule of Holy Life