1.
The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
2.
A great dowry is a bed full of brables.
[A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]
George Herbert
3.
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
George Herbert
4.
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
George Herbert
5.
You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.
George Herbert
6.
A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.
George Herbert
7.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
George Herbert
8.
Help thyself, and God will help thee.
George Herbert
9.
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
George Herbert
10.
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
George Herbert
11.
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
George Herbert
12.
Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!
George Herbert
13.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
George Herbert
14.
Every path hath a puddle.
George Herbert
15.
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
George Herbert
16.
By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured
George Herbert
17.
I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.
George Herbert
18.
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
George Herbert
19.
Music helps not the toothache.
George Herbert
20.
Be thrifty, but not covetous.
George Herbert
21.
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
George Herbert
22.
Where there is peace, God is.
George Herbert
23.
Castles are Forrests of stones.
George Herbert
24.
The shortest answer is doing.
George Herbert
25.
Every mile is two in winter
George Herbert
26.
No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.
George Herbert
27.
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
George Herbert
28.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
George Herbert
29.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
George Herbert
30.
Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
George Herbert
31.
Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert
32.
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee; but before
Mayst rule it, as thou list: and pour the shame,
Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor.
It is most just to throw that on the ground,
Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.
George Herbert
33.
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.
George Herbert
34.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
George Herbert
35.
Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.
George Herbert
36.
For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.
George Herbert
37.
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
George Herbert
38.
A good digestion turneth all to health.
George Herbert
39.
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
George Herbert
40.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert
41.
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.
George Herbert
42.
Many things are lost for want of asking.
George Herbert
43.
God sees hearts as we see faces.
George Herbert
44.
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
George Herbert
45.
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.
George Herbert
46.
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.
George Herbert
47.
Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.
George Herbert
48.
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.
George Herbert
49.
He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy.
George Herbert
50.
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
George Herbert
