# George Herbert

- Quotes: 61
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert

## Books

- [The Temple](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert/the-temple.md) — 61 quotes

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> Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart
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> Could have recovered greenness?

> Whereas if the heart be moved,
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> Although the verse be somewhat scant,
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> God doth supply the want.

> Thy rope of sands,
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> Which petty thoughts have made, and made to thee
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> Good cable, to enforce and draw,
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> And be thy law,
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> While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.

> Surely if each saw another's heart,
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> There would be no commerce,
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> No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse,
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> And live apart.

> Most things move th' under-jaw; the Crocodile not.
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> Most things sleep lying; th' Elephant leans or stands.

> I struck the board, and cry'd, No more.
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> I will abroad.
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> What? shall I ever sigh and pine?
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> My lines and life are free; free as the road,
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> Loose as the wind, as large as store.
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> Shall I be still in suit?
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> Have I no harvest but a thorn
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> To let me blood, and not restore
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> What I have lost with cordial fruit?
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> Sure there was wine
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> Before my sighs did dry it: there was corn
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> Before my tears did drown it;
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> Is the year only lost to me?
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> Have I no bays to crown it?

> But as I rav'd and grew more fierce and wild
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> At every word,
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> Methought I heard one calling, Child!
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> And I reply'd, My Lord.

> The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords
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> If when the soul unto the lines accords.

> Throw away thy rod;
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> Though man frailties hath,
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> Thou art God:
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> Throw away thy wrath.

> Let him be rich and weary, that at least,
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> If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
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> May toss him to my breast.

> Call in thy death's head there: tie up thy fears.

> Teach me, my God and King,
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> In all things thee to see
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> And what I do in any thing,
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> To do it as for thee.