Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
GEORGE HERBERTDally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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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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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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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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