No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
GEORGE HERBERTWhen war begins, then hell openeth.
More George Herbert Quotes
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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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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Anothers bread costs deare.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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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 wife is the key of the house.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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