Weening is not measure.
GEORGE HERBERTThe honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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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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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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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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Where there is peace, God is.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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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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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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