A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
More George Herbert Quotes
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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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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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Prettiness dies first.
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