The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
GEORGE HERBERTIn a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
More George Herbert Quotes
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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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 offender never pardons.
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