In a long journey straw waighs.
GEORGE HERBERTBetter never begin than never make an end.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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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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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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He that staies does the businesse.
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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