Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
More George Herbert Quotes
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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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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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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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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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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