The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
GEORGE HERBERTWhen war begins, then hell openeth.
More George Herbert Quotes
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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All that shakes falles not.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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The eye will have his part.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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