George Herbert nejznámější citáty
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“370. Would you know what mony is, go borrow some.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“391. To a crazy ship all windes are contrary.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.”
Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 364
“169. God heales, and the physitian hath the thankes.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.”
Virtue, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“901. Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.”
This is printed in some editions as: Half the world knows not how the other half lives.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“314. The absent partie is still faultie.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime,
'T is angels' music.”
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
“74. Hearken to Reason, or shee will bee heard.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.”
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
“502. A penny spar'd is twice got.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“775. A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“241. An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“1011. The eye is bigger then the belly.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
