Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
GEORGE HERBERTAn old dog barks not in vain.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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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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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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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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The way is an ill neighbour.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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