Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
GEORGE HERBERTBy the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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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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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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