To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
GEORGE HERBERTThe first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Prettiness dies first.
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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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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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