Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
—George Herbert
Topics: Ability, Army, Winning, Assurance, Confidence, Talent
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
—George Herbert
Topics: Part of The Whole, Inferiority
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
—George Herbert
Topics: Punishment
Ply the pleasure that bites tomorrow.
—George Herbert
Topics: Pleasure
Never was a miser a brave soul.
—George Herbert
Topics: Misery, Money
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.
—George Herbert
Topics: Love
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunk.
—George Herbert
Topics: Drunkenness
The virtue of a coward is suspicion.
—George Herbert
A verse may find him who a sermon flies.
—George Herbert
Topics: Quotations
A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the further of the two.
—George Herbert
Topics: Teamwork, Teams
Three helping one another bear the burden of six.
—George Herbert
Topics: Help, Helping, Proverbs
He that lives in hope danceth without musick.
—George Herbert
Topics: Hope
Without danger you cannot get beyond danger.
—George Herbert
Topics: Danger
Play not for gain, but sport; who plays for more than he can lose with pleasure stakes his heart.
—George Herbert
Topics: Gambling
Good words are worth much and cost little.
—George Herbert
Topics: Words
Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.
—George Herbert
Topics: Knowledge
Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie; a fault which needs it most grows two thereby.
—George Herbert
Topics: Truth
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.
—George Herbert
Topics: Journeys
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
—George Herbert
Topics: Greatness & Great Things, Greatness
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
—George Herbert
Topics: Father
The life of spies is to know, not to be known.
—George Herbert
Destiny is always dark.
—George Herbert
Topics: Destiny
The love of learning and the love of money rarely meet.
—George Herbert
Topics: Learning
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
—George Herbert
Topics: Spring
Words are women, deeds are men
—George Herbert
Topics: Words
A cherefull look makes a dish a feast.
—George Herbert
Topics: One liners, Eating
If I have but enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself and them; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.
—George Herbert
Topics: Riches
The best mirror is an old friend.
—George Herbert
Topics: Work, Identity, One liners, Friendship, Appearance
Get money to live; then live and use it, else it is not true that thou hast gotten.—Surely use alone makes money not contemptible.
—George Herbert
Topics: Money
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
—George Herbert
Topics: Justice
A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert
Topics: Garden, Gardening, Gardens
Thou has given me so much… Give me one thing more, a grateful heart.
—George Herbert
Topics: Thankfulness
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day, and in the morning what thou hast to do.—Dress and undress thy soul; mark the decay and growth of it.—If with thy watch, that too be down, then wind up both; since we shall be most surely judged, make thine accounts agree.
—George Herbert
Topics: Reflection, Self-Knowledge
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
—George Herbert
Topics: Gifts
No sooner is a temple built to God, but the devil builds a chapel hard by.
—George Herbert
He that labors and thrives spins gold.
—George Herbert
Topics: Work
One enemy is too much.
—George Herbert
Topics: Enemy, Enemies
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
—George Herbert
Topics: Religion, God
He that respects not is not respected.
—George Herbert
Topics: Respect
The resolved mind hath no cares.
—George Herbert
Topics: Commitment, Mind
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