An ill deed cannot bring honor.
GEORGE HERBERTNo profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
More George Herbert Quotes
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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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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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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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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