The way is an ill neighbour.
GEORGE HERBERTGood words are worth much, and cost little.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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The offender never pardons.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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