Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
GEORGE HERBERTOnly a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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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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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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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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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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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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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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All that shakes falles not.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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