When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
GEORGE HERBERTHee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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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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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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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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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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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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