He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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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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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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