Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
GEORGE HERBERTThe cholerick man never wants woe.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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