With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
GEORGE HERBERTBy the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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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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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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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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