Neere Halfe Quotes

Better halfe a loafe than no bread. ~ William Camden

He warmes too neere that burnes. ~ George Herbert

Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled.
[Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.] ~ George Herbert

He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things. ~ George Herbert

The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe. ~ George Herbert

As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether. ~ Thomas Nash

Health without money is halfe an ague. ~ George Herbert

Busie olde foole, unruly Sunne;
Why dost thou thus,
Through windowes, and through curtaines call on us?
Must to they motions lovers seasons run?
Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide
Late schoole boyes, and sowre prentices,
Goe tell Court-huntsmen, that the King will ride,
Call countrey ands to harvest offices;
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clyme,
Nor houres, dayes, months, which are the rags of time.

Thy beames, so reverend, and strong
Why shouldst thou thinke?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a winke,
But that I would not lose her sight so long:
If her eyes have not blinded thine
Looke, and tomorrow late, tell mee,
Whether both the India's of spice and Myne
Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with mee.
Aske for those Kings whom thou saw'st yesterday,
And thou shalt heare, All here in one bed lay.

She'is all States, and all Princes, I,
Nothing else is;
Princes doe but play us; compar'd to this,
All honor's mimique; All wealth alchimie,
Thou sunne art halfe as happy'as wee,
In that the world's contracted thus;
Thine ages askes ease, and since thy duties bee
To warme the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art every where;
This bed thy center is, these walls, thy spheare. ~ John Donne

Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth). ~ George Herbert