True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
GEORGE HERBERTThe Law is not the same at morning and at night.
More George Herbert Quotes
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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