Heresie is the school of pride.
GEORGE HERBERTTrue beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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The eye will have his part.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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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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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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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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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 much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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