Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
GEORGE HERBERTWee know not who lives or dies.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Prettiness dies first.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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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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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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