True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
GEORGE HERBERTThe wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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No Alchymy to saving.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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