The offender never pardons.
GEORGE HERBERTLawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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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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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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