Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
GEORGE HERBERTEveryone puts his fault on the Times.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Weening is not measure.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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A little labour, much health.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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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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A child correct behind and not before.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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