Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
GEORGE HERBERTGiving is dead, restoring very sicke.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Weening is not measure.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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