God’s mill grinds slow but sure.
—George Herbert
Topics: Justice
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.
—George Herbert
Topics: Love
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
—George Herbert
Topics: Family, Fathers, One liners, Father
A tyrant is most tyrant to himself
—George Herbert
Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee.
—George Herbert
Topics: Victory
Better never begin than never make an end.
—George Herbert
Topics: Speaking, Speakers
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
—George Herbert
Topics: Failure, Wealth
Night is the mother of counsels.
—George Herbert
Topics: Night
Be thrifty, but not covetous.
—George Herbert
Topics: Thrift, Economy, Economics
The resolved mind hath no cares.
—George Herbert
Topics: Mind, Commitment
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
He that respects not is not respected.
—George Herbert
Topics: Respect
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
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
—George Herbert
Topics: Water, One liners, Prayer
A gift much expected is paid, not given.
—George Herbert
Topics: Giving
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
—George Herbert
Topics: Alcohol, Alcoholism
Let thy mind’s sweetness have its operation upon thy body, thy clothes, and thy habitation.
—George Herbert
Destiny is always dark.
—George Herbert
Topics: Destiny
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
—George Herbert
Topics: Hell
He who has the pepper may season as he lists.
—George Herbert
Topics: Control
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
—George Herbert
Topics: Time Management, Spending time wisely, Time, Life
He that labors and thrives spins gold.
—George Herbert
Topics: Work
Praise the sea, but keep on the land.
—George Herbert
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
—George Herbert
Topics: Greatness & Great Things, Greatness
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: Self-Knowledge, Reflection
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for ‘Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.
—George Herbert
Topics: Solitude, Self-improvement, Self-Discovery
Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie; a fault which needs it most grows two thereby.
—George Herbert
Topics: Truth
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunk.
—George Herbert
Topics: Drunkenness
A verse may find him who a sermon flies.
—George Herbert
Topics: Quotations
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
—George Herbert
Topics: Assurance, Talent, Army, Winning, Ability, Confidence
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