There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
GEORGE HERBERTWho praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
More George Herbert Quotes
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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The offender never pardons.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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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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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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