Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
GEORGE HERBERTIn a long journey straw waighs.
More George Herbert Quotes
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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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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All that shakes falles not.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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