With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
GEORGE HERBERTEvery one is witty for his owne purpose.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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In a long journey straw waighs.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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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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