I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
GEORGE HERBERTGreat Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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The eye will have his part.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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