Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
GEORGE HERBERTLight burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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