Anothers bread costs deare.
GEORGE HERBERTSink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
More George Herbert Quotes
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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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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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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The offender never pardons.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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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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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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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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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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