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Quotes from The Temple — George Herbert

1593–1633 England

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To write a verse or two is all the praise
That I can raise.

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Whereas if the heart be moved,
Although the verse be somewhat scant,
God doth supply the want.

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Resort to sermons, but to prayers most:
Praying's the end of preaching.

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

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The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords
If when the soul unto the lines accords.

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Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart
Could have recovered greenness?

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Surely if each saw another's heart,
There would be no commerce,
No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse,
And live apart.

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Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky;
The dew shall weep thy fall tonight,
For thou must die.

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He that is drunken
Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill
Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure.
Who cannot live on twenty pound a year,
Cannot on forty.

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Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where,
And when, and how thy business may be done.
Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller,
Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

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Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in vain;
It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse.

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Let him be rich and weary, that at least,
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to my breast.

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Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,
Which my God feels as blood, but I as wine.

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

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A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine:
Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,
Makes that and th' action fine.

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Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need
But he to wear them.

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Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing,
My God and King.

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Like summer friends,
Flies of estate and sunneshine.

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Get to live;
Then live, and use it; else, it is not true
That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone
Makes money not a contemptible stone.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Herbert (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.