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George Herbert Quotes - Page 37

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

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

Glasses, Alcohol, Drink

'The Church-porch', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Wish, Literature, Hell

George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.146

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

Taken, Literature, Holes

George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.187

Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.

Knowledge, Grace, Guides

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 364, 1895.

Let all live as they would die.

Life, Dies

George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.316

The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.

Patience, Want, Speak

'The Church Porch' (1633) st. 72

He that respects not is not respected.

Respect

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.305

A dwarf on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.

Teamwork, Dwarves, Two

"The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall".

Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.

Spring, May, Springtime

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.363

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

Prayer, Ocean, Sea

Jacula Prudentum (published posthumously, 1651).

This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked now as it was in the days of Plato, is, in simple truth, ten times more important to humanity than all the chemistry and physics, all the technical and indsutrial science that ever has been or ever will be discovered.

Plato, Knowledge, Science

Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.

Made, Trade

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.363

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

Inferiority, Literature, Spirit

George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Barnabas Oley (1848). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...”, p.298

A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

Garden, Body

"The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel".

Money refused loose its brightness.

Brightness, Refuse

'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'

Science, Devil, Way

But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.

Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

Stupid, Taken, Science

The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.

School, Science, Acquisition

We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

Age, Example, Needs

George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.8

Stay a little and news will find you.

News, Littles

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.302

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

Cutting, Kissing, Hands

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.300

Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

Spiritual, Kings, Thee

'The Elixir' (1633)

The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.

Love, Children, Smell

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

Editors, Clothes, Noblemen

George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.331

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