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George Herbert Quotes
“Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee.”
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
“305. He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“242. The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Do well and right, and let the world sink.”
Country Parson, chapter xxix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“149. Marry your sonne when you will, your daughter when you can.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“940. The great would have none great, and the little all little.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.”
Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 364
“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.”
Virtue, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“778. He that doth what he should not shall feele what he would not.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“901. Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.”
This is printed in some editions as: Half the world knows not how the other half lives.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime,
'T is angels' music.”
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
