Quotes from Jacula Prudentum — George Herbert
1593–1633 England
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611. Time is the rider that breakes youth.
744. Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.
753. By doing nothing we learne to do ill.
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
My house, my house, though thou art small,
Thou art to me the Escurial.
Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.
There is a remedy for everything, could men find it.
Old men go to death; death comes to young men.
Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
619. You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.
778. He that doth what he should not shall feele what he would not.
940. The great would have none great, and the little all little.
620. Before you make a friend eate a bushell of salt with him.
876. One houre's sleepe before midnight is worth three after.
649. A beane in liberty is better than a comfit in prison.
850. He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
916. The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
991. Speake not of my debts, unlesse you mean to pay them.
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