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Quotes by George Herbert - (30 quotes)

George Herbert - From the Books category:

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Commerce category:

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Commitment category:

The resolved mind hath no cares. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Communication category:

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Difficulty category:

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Drunkenness category:

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

George Herbert - From the Ego category:

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Failure category:

Sometimes the best gain is to lose. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Finishing category:

Better never begin than never make an end. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Greatness category:

There would be no great men if there were no little ones. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Happiness category:

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

George Herbert - From the Health category:

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)

George Herbert - From the Influence category:

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Knowledge category:

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

George Herbert - From the Language category:

The eyes have one language everywhere. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Leisure category:

He hath no leisure who useth it not. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Life category:

Living well is the best revenge. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Life category:

Life is half spent before we know what it is. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Money category:

Be thrifty, but not covetous. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Money category:

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Peace category:

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Planning category:

For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Prayer category:

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Prayer category:

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Procrastination category:

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. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Questions category:

The shortest answer is doing. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Skill category:

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Truth category:

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

George Herbert - From the Tyranny category:

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off. (George Herbert)

George Herbert - From the Words category:

Good words are worth much, and cost little. (George Herbert)