An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
GEORGE HERBERTEvery one is witty for his owne purpose.
More George Herbert Quotes
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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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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He that burnes most shines most.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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