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Quotations by author » George Herbert
English metaphysical Poet and Clergyman, 1593-1633
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But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild / At every word, / Methought I heard one calling, `Child'; / And I replied, `My Lord'.
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By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured
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Calmness is always Godlike
God
Courtesie on one side only lasts not long.
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Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most grows two thereby
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Death is still working like a mole, / And digs my grave at each remove.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer
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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.
Time
Do well and right, and let the world sink
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Drink not the third glass which thou canst not tame / When once it is within thee.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow
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Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.
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Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot
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God heals, and the physician hath the thanks
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Great wealth always supports the party in power, no matter how corrupt it may be. It never exerts itself for reform, for it instinctively fears change.
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Half the world knows not how the other half lies
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He hath no leisure who useth it not.
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He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven
Forgiveness
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