George Herbert

Poet

118 Quotes

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

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

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

The shortest answer is doing.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

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

Never was a miser a brave soul.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

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