No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
GEORGE HERBERTWho would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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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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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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