George Herbert Hard Quotations

No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.

It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]

If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]

Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.

Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.