He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
GEORGE HERBERTHee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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