Conversation makes one what he is.
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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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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He that burnes most shines most.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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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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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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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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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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