Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
GEORGE HERBERTI envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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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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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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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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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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