The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
GEORGE HERBERTThe best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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The eye will have his part.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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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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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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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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