Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
GEORGE HERBERTAll our pompe the earth covers.
More George Herbert Quotes
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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