George Herbert Quotes

For, if I imp my wing on thine,
Affliction shall advance the flight in me.

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

Then they labour anxiously, when they overdo it, to the loss of their quiet and health: then distrustfully, when they doubt God's providence, thinking that their own labour is the cause of their thriving, as if it were in their own hands to thrive or not to thrive. Then they labour profanely, when they set themselves to work like brute beasts, never raising their thoughts to God, nor sanctifying their labour with daily prayer; when on the Lord's day they do unnecessary servile work,

He makes flat war with God, and doth defy With his poor clod of earth the spacious sky.

O who will give me tears? Come, all ye springs,
Dwell in my head and eyes; come, clouds
and rain;
My grief hath need of all the watery things
That nature hath produced: let every vein
Suck up a river to supply mine eyes,
My weary weeping eyes, too dry for me,
Unless they get new conduits, new supplies,
To bear them out, and with my state agree.

Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity; That I may run, rise, rest with thee.

He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.

Poverty is no sinne.

He that lends gives.

Emptie vessels sound most.

Folly growes without watering.

The offender never pardons.

Little wealth, little care.

Man proposeth, God disposeth.

Comparisons are odious.