Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
GEORGE HERBERTTo have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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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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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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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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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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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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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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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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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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