Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
GEORGE HERBERTGood words are worth much, and cost little.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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All that shakes falles not.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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