I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
GEORGE HERBERTTrue beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He that burnes most shines most.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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