All our pompe the earth covers.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that is angry at a feast is rude.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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A little labour, much health.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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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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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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