Conversation makes one what he is.
GEORGE HERBERTIf folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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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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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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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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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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