Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
GEORGE HERBERTPrettiness dies first.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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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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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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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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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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