He that burnes most shines most.
GEORGE HERBERTGod is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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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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All that shakes falles not.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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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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Weening is not measure.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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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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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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