The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
GEORGE HERBERTTrue beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
More George Herbert Quotes
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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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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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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A little labour, much health.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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