The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
GEORGE HERBERTThe Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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He that burnes most shines most.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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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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