"God complaines not, but doth what is fitting."
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George Herbert quotes (page 46 of 64)
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"God comes to see without a bell."
"Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]"
"Giving is dead, restoring very sicke."
"Give loosers leave to talke."
"Gamsters and race-horses never last long."
"From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. [From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]"
"Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured."
"France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere."
"Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother."
"Forbeare not sowing because of birds."
"For washing his hands, none sels his lands."
"For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible."
"For a morning raine leave not your journey. [For a morning rain leave not your journey.]"
"Foolish tongues talke by the dozen."
"Fooles give to please all but their owne."
"Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together."
"Flies are busiest about leane horses."
"Feares are divided in the midst."
"Feare, the Bedle of the Law."