We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
GEORGE HERBERTYou cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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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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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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