Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
GEORGE HERBERTIn a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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