Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
GEORGE HERBERTThe first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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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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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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