List of George Herbert Quotes

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George Herbert
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Play not for gain, but sport. who plays for more than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.
Sports Heart Gambling
The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest all wordly right, save what he hath by beast.
Men Beast Forfeit
Quick believers need broad shoulders.
Needs Broads Shoulders
In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; all such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
Desire News Courtesy
He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy.
Country Witty Holy
If i have enough for myself and family, i am steward only for myself; if i have more, i am but a steward of that abundance for others.
Abundance Enough Stewards
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, who opens it hath it twice told.
Hands Gold Lost
The jews spend at easter.
Easter Jew
The smith and his penny both are black.
Black Pennies
The wolf must die in his own skin.
Skins Dies
Better a barefoot than none.
Barefoot
Man is all symmetry, full of proportions, one limb to another.
Men Limbs Proportion
  • Born: April 3, 1593
  • Died: March 1, 1633
  • Occupation: Poet
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