Quotes from Jacula Prudentum — George Herbert
1593–1633 England
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891. Hee hath no leisure who useth it not.
Much money makes a countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.
All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.
The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.
Those that God loves, do not live long.
He that lives well is learned enough.
Words are women, deeds are men.
All is not gold that glisters.
684. When God will punish, He will first take away the understanding.
Hee that makes himself a sheep shall be eat by the wolfe.
A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two.
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
Your thoughts close and your countenance loose.
The war is not don so long as my enemy lives.
Cruelty is more cruell if we defer the pain.
Well may hee smell fire whose gowne burnes.
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