The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
GEORGE HERBERTAnothers bread costs deare.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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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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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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