True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
GEORGE HERBERTA lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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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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No Alchymy to saving.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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