Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
GEORGE HERBERTThe eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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The offender never pardons.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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