Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
GEORGE HERBERTOf the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Shall 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?
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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