He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
GEORGE HERBERTThe life of spies is to know, not bee known.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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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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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Prettiness dies first.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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