Good words are worth much, and cost little.
GEORGE HERBERTThe Mr. absent, and the house dead.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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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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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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