A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that will be surety, shall pay.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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The offender never pardons.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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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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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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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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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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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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