A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
GEORGE HERBERTThere is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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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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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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Weening is not measure.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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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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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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