He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
GEORGE HERBERTHee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
More George Herbert Quotes
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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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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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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