Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
GEORGE HERBERTWeening is not measure.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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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 Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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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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He that burnes most shines most.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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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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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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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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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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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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