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.
GEORGE HERBERTEveryone puts his fault on the Times.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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The eye will have his part.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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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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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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All that shakes falles not.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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