Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
More George Herbert Quotes
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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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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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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A child correct behind and not before.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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