The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
GEORGE HERBERTOnly a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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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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There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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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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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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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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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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