A Quote by George Herbert
The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
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A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.
See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
He that but fears the thing he would not know,
Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes,
That what he feared is chanced.
The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.
What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Let not the tongue give utterance to the evil that is in thine heart, but command thy tongue to be silent until good shall prevail over evil.
No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.
Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.
The honied tongue hath its poison.
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