Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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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Conversation makes one what he is.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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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 Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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