Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
GEORGE HERBERTSumme up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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The eye will have his part.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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