Good and quickly seldom meet.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
More George Herbert Quotes
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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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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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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