Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
GEORGE HERBERTBy all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Weening is not measure.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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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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