1633 · Skopia

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Living well is the best revenge.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum · 1633

★ 6.9

His bark is worse than his bite.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum · 1633

★ 5.3

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum · 1633

★ 3.6

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum · 1633

★ 3.6

Poem

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

Abraham Cowley

1633

★ 3.5

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

George Herbert

Outlandish Proverbs · 1633

★ 3.5

Poem

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee.

George Herbert

The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations · 1633

★ 3.5

Poem

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning, If I lacked any thing.

George Herbert

1633

★ 3.5

Poem

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant, The only harmless great thing.

John Donne

1633

★ 2.0

The best mirror is an old friend.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum · 1633

★ 1.9

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum · 1633

★ 1.9

Poem

Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart Could have recover'd greennesse?

George Herbert

The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations · 1633

★ 1.9

Poem

Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.

George Herbert

The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations · 1633

★ 1.9