Good words are worth much, and cost little.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that comes of a hen must scrape.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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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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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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