The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
GEORGE HERBERTThere is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
More George Herbert Quotes
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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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 Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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