True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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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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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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