When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
GEORGE HERBERTGossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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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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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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The eye will have his part.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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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 eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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