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George Herbert Quotes - Page 35

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The body is more drest then the soule.

The body is more drest then the soule.

Body

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.360

The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.

Garden, Building

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.336

The chiefe boxe of health is time.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.360

The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.

Children, Fire, Heard

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.330

The cholerick man never wants woe.

Men, Want, Woe

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.342

The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.

George Herbert (1941). “The works of George Herbert”, Oxford University Press

The comforters head never akes.

Comforter

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.335

The command of custome is great.

Command

George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.321

The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.

Deities, Benefits, Arguing

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.353

The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

Men, Self, Snow

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.326

The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.

Crow

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.338

The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.

George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.178

The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.

Young

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.371

The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.316

The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

Men, Void

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.373

The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.

Dog, Bones

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.338

The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]

Dog, Meals, Ashes

The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

Needs, Tongue, Speak

The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]

Bait, Taste, Feels

The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.

Morning, Frost, Evening

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.311

The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.

Eye

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.322

The eye is bigger then the belly. [The eye is bigger than the belly.]

Eye, Bigger, Belly

The eye will have his part.

Eye

George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.237

The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

Faults

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.333

The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.

Horse, Faults, Saddles

George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Barnabas Oley (1848). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...”, p.256

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