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Category: George Herbert

3 December 2020 George Herbert

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

3 December 2020 George Herbert

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

3 December 2020 George Herbert

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

3 December 2020 George Herbert

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

3 December 2020 George Herbert

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

3 December 2020 George Herbert

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

3 December 2020 George Herbert

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

3 December 2020 George Herbert

Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

3 December 2020 George Herbert

Do not wait the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

3 December 2020 George Herbert

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

3 December 2020 George Herbert

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

3 December 2020 George Herbert

Living well is the best revenge.

3 December 2020 George Herbert

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

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