Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
GEORGE HERBERTHe puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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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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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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He that staies does the businesse.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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