Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
GEORGE HERBERTThe scalded head feares cold water.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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