Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
GEORGE HERBERTIn thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The wife is the key of the house.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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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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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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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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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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