Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
GEORGE HERBERTWho eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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