The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
GEORGE HERBERTOnly a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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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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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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