Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
GEORGE HERBERTTo a greedy eating horse a short halter.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The eye will have his part.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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The offender never pardons.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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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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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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