The cholerick man never wants woe.
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More George Herbert Quotes
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Prettiness dies first.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Weening is not measure.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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