Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
GEORGE HERBERTEvery one fastens where there is gaine.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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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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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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A little labour, much health.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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