We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
GEORGE HERBERTAll our pompe the earth covers.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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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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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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The eye will have his part.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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