True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
GEORGE HERBERTA feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
More George Herbert Quotes
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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