Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that brings good newes knockes hard.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
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Never was strumpet faire.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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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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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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