A Quote by George Herbert

Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman. — © George Herbert
Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman.

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A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.
Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind's future! Take heed men and women of good will! May the temptation to seek revenge give way to the courage to forgive; may the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death; may trust once more give breath to the lives of peoples.
The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.
Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]
As a woman leader, I try to take every opportunity I can to do what my mentors did for me - engaging with young women and take them seriously.
We must follow the ways of the Lord, and take heed to our own ways, lest they lead us into sin. One can take heed if one is not hasty in speaking. The law says: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God' (Dt. 6:4). It said not: 'Speak,' but 'Hear.' Eve fell because she said to the man what she had not heard from the Lord her God. The first word from God says to you: Hear!
The whole idea we have for their chastity is ridiculous. They would have to become numb and invisible to please us. I don't know whether the exploits of Alexander and Caesar really surpass the resolution of a beautiful young woman, bred up in the light and commerce of our society, who still keeps herself whole. There is no doing so hard as not doing.
I pay heed to all the criticisms about me. Paying heed to them is a sure way of improving. It is a learning experience.
We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman
I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.
No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her!
The well-educated young woman of 1950 will blend art and sciences in a way we do not dream of; the science will steady the art andthe art will give charm to the science. This young woman will marry--yes, indeed, but she will take her pick of men, who will by that time have begun to realize what sort of men it behooves them to be.
Take heed lest you stumble.
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