Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
—George Herbert
Topics: Ability, Winning, Assurance, Army, Confidence, Talent
Let thy mind’s sweetness have its operation upon thy body, thy clothes, and thy habitation.
—George Herbert
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
—George Herbert
Topics: Punishment
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
—George Herbert
Topics: Argument, Arguments
Better never begin than never make an end.
—George Herbert
Topics: Speakers, Speaking
Who hath no haste in his business, mountains to him seem valleys.
—George Herbert
Topics: Action
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
—George Herbert
Topics: Alcohol, Alcoholism
Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God.—It is for cowards to lie.
—George Herbert
Topics: Lying
The resolved mind hath no cares.
—George Herbert
Topics: Commitment, Mind
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
—George Herbert
Topics: Hell
A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the further of the two.
—George Herbert
Topics: Teamwork, Teams
A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
—George Herbert
Topics: Talking, Memories
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
—George Herbert
Topics: Time, Spending time wisely, Time Management, Life
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
Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.
—George Herbert
Topics: Knowledge
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunk.
—George Herbert
Topics: Drunkenness
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
—George Herbert
Topics: Father
Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, – a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
—George Herbert
Topics: Gratitude
Every mile is two in winter.
—George Herbert
Topics: Winter
Thou who has given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart.
—George Herbert
Topics: Gratitude, Prayer
No sooner is a temple built to God, but the devil builds a chapel hard by.
—George Herbert
You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.
—George Herbert
Topics: Life
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
—George Herbert
Topics: Compromise
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
Night is the mother of counsels.
—George Herbert
Topics: Night
God’s mill grinds slow but sure.
—George Herbert
Topics: Justice
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
—George Herbert
Topics: Difficulties, Difficulty
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
—George Herbert
Topics: Greatness & Great Things, Greatness
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
—George Herbert
Topics: God, Religion
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
—George Herbert
Topics: Drunkenness
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- Richard Chenevix Trench Irish Archbishop, Poet
- Richard Hooker English Theologian, Political Theorist
- Benjamin Whichcote British Religious Figure
- Laurence Sterne Irish Anglican Novelist
- William Ralph Inge English Anglican Clergyman
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) British Anglican Author
- Sydney Smith English Preacher
- John Wilkins British Clergyman, Scholar
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