I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
GEORGE HERBERTThere is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The offender never pardons.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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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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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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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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Anothers bread costs deare.
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The eye will have his part.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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