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George Herbert Quotes About Life

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

Living well is the best revenge.

More Quotes by George Herbert

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Better never begin than never make an end.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Night is the mother of counsels.

The resolved mind hath no cares.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

The shortest answer is doing.

The offender never pardons.

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