Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERTThe wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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