The cholerick man never wants woe.
GEORGE HERBERTBy no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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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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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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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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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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