A child correct behind and not before.
GEORGE HERBERTThe Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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The offender never pardons.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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