An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
GEORGE HERBERTThe life of spies is to know, not bee known.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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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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Better never begin than never make an end.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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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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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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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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