Good is the mora that makes all sure.
GEORGE HERBERTHee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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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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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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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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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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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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