Quotes from George Herbert

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

Poverty is no sin.

Teach me, my God and King,In all things thee to seeAnd what I do in any thing,To do it as for thee.

Call in thy death's head there: tie up thy fears.

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

One enemy is too much.

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

Man is God's image; but a poor man isChrist's stamp to boot: both images regard.

Marry your son when you will; your daughter when you can.

Who goes to bed and does not pray,Maketh two nights to every day.

Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?

O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,A box where sweets compacted lie.

Thursday come, and the week is gone.

I got me flowers to strew Thy way,I got me boughs off many a tree:But Thou wast up by break of day,And brought'st Thy sweets along with Thee.

The harbingers are come. See, see their mark;White is their color, and behold my head.

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

Who would do ill ne'er wants occasion.

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly strikingSometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.

By all means use sometimes to be alone.

For thirty pence he did my death devise,Who at three hundred did the ointment prize.

Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Words are women, deeds are men.