No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
GEORGE HERBERTThe wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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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 a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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In 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.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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