Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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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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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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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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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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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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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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