The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
GEORGE HERBERTTo a greedy eating horse a short halter.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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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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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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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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