When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
GEORGE HERBERTIf folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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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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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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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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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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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 miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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