The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
GEORGE HERBERTThe way is an ill neighbour.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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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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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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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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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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