With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
GEORGE HERBERTGood swimmers at length are drowned.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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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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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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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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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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