1,357 Quotes by George Herbert

There’s no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering.

It’s not good fishing before the net.

Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.

Look not for musk in a dog’s kennel.

Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

Let thy mind’s sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.

Every man’s censure is first moulded in his own nature.

When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, ‘Let us,‘said he,‘pour on him all we can: Let the world’s riches, which disperse’ d lie, Contract into a span’.