No Alchymy to saving.
GEORGE HERBERTTrue beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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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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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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