That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
GEORGE HERBERTDrink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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