Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
GEORGE HERBERTThere is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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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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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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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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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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