Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
GEORGE HERBERTReligion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
More George Herbert Quotes
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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The offender never pardons.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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A little labour, much health.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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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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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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