George Herbert (1593 – 1633)
English poet and orator.
He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never bee handsome, strong, rich, or wise.
No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.
It (my book) is a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed between God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus, my Master, in whose service I have now found perfect freedom. (Maycock, A L, Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding. SPCK, London, 1938).
Fine words dresse ill deedes.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
A beane in liberty is better than a comfit in prison.
One sword keepes another in the sheath.
In a long journey straw waighs.
A penny spar'd is twice got.
The best mirrour is an old friend.
He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne.
A foole knowes more in his house then a wise man in another's.
[ Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.]
Three can hold their peace if two be away.
The absent partie is still faultie.
Pleasing ware is halfe sould.
Hope is the poor man's bread.
Chase brave employment with a naked sword
Throughout the world.
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.