A penny spar’d is twice got.
GEORGE HERBERTChuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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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 wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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