The offender never pardons.
GEORGE HERBERTEstate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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All that shakes falles not.
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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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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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