He that staies does the businesse.
GEORGE HERBERTBy no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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