All that shakes falles not.
GEORGE HERBERTShall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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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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A child correct behind and not before.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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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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