George Herbert Quotes

1593-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
quotes
36
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“Spend not on hopes.”
Investments
“One enemy is too much.”
Enemies
“The resolved mind hath no cares.”
Commitment
“Night is the mother of counsels.”
Night
“Sometimes the best gain is to lose.”
Failure
“He that knows nothing doubts nothing.”
Doubt
“Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.”
Difficulties
“The eyes have one language everywhere.”
Language
“One sword keeps another in the sheath.”
Peace
“None knows the weight of another's burden.”
Burdens
“He who has the pepper may season as he lists.”
Control
“Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.”
Skill
“He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.”
Oceans
“A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.”
Compromise
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
Fathers
“Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.”
Doctors
“A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.”
Gardening and Gardens
“There would be no great men if there were no little ones.”
Greatness
“A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.”
Teams and Teamwork
“It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.”
Inferiority
“Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.”
Prayer
“Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.”
God
“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”
Conversation
“Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.”
Alcohol and Alcoholism
“A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.”
Memory