A Quote by George Herbert

Vertue never growes old.

George Herbert

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George Herbert
British - Poet
April 3, 1593 - March 1, 1633

Folly growes without watering.

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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.

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The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.

George Herbert

To maken vertue of necessite.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The vertue of a coward is suspition.

George Herbert

Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children.

George Herbert

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

George Herbert

Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.

George Herbert

Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.

John Lyly

Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

Robert Herrick

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

Izaak Walton

A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.

George Herbert

If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.

John Gerard

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

Mary Astell

Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.