The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
GEORGE HERBERTA penny spar’d is twice got.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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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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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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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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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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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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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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