Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
GEORGE HERBERTThe wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The life of man is a winter way.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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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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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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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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