Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
GEORGE HERBERTWho would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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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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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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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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