No Alchymy to saving.
GEORGE HERBERTEnvy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
More George Herbert Quotes
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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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 dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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