When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
GEORGE HERBERTWhere there is peace, God is.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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The life of man is a winter way.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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