The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
GEORGE HERBERTMany, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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Prettiness dies first.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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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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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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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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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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