By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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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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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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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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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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