The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that goeth farre hath many encounters.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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A little labour, much health.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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