Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
GEORGE HERBERTHe that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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 life of man is a winter way.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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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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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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