True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
GEORGE HERBERTGood and quickly seldom meet.
More George Herbert Quotes
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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The life of man is a winter way.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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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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