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George Herbert Quotes - Page 40

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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.

A good pay-master starts not at assurances.

Pay, Masters, Assurance

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.295

A good prayer is master of anothers purse.

Prayer, Purses, Masters

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.345

A hatt is not made for one shower.

Made, Showers

A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule.

Habit, Holy

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.348

A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. [A horse stumbles that has four legs.]

Horse, Legs, Four

A house and a woman sute excellently.

House

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.339

A jade eates as much as a good horse.

Horse, Jade, Good Horse

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.341

A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.328

A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately.

Ifs

George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

A little and good fills the trencher.

Littles

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.307

A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.

Littles, Excuse, Given

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.317

A little labour, much health.

Littles, Labour

George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.315

A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

Hands, Long, Tongue

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.327

A Lyons skin is never cheape.

Skins

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.317

A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.

Men, Wells

He that chastens one, chastens 20.

George Herbert, Ann Pasternak Slater (1995). “The complete English works”

He that contemplates hath a day without night.

Night, Contemplating

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.310

He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.

World

George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations”, p.330

He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.

Men, Good Man, Way

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.364

He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not. [He that doth what he should not shall feel what he would not.]

Should, Feels

He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.

Woods

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

He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.

Giving, Suffering, Dies

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.357

He that gives me small gifts would have me live.

Giving, Small Gifts, Give Me

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey (1868). “The Poetical Works of George Herbert: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes”, p.322

He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]

Eye, Bees, Loses

George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse”, p.337, London : Frederick Warne and Company, [18--?]

He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head.

Bosoms

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.343

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