True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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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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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Weening is not measure.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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