More from George Herbert

  1. Life is half spent before we know what it is.
  2. The eye is bigger than the belly.
  3. Half the world knows not how the other half lives.
  4. His bark is worse than his bite.
  5. He hath no leisure who useth it not.
  6. There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
  7. One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.
  8. Woe be to him that reads but one book.

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