Good swimmers at length are drowned.
GEORGE HERBERTAll our pompe the earth covers.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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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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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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