In a long journey straw waighs.
GEORGE HERBERTMany, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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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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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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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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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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