The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
GEORGE HERBERTThe worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Prettiness dies first.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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The offender never pardons.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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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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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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The eye will have his part.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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