Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
GEORGE HERBERTGod is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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All that shakes falles not.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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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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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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The offender never pardons.
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