We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
GEORGE HERBERTDeceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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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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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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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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All that shakes falles not.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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