The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
GEORGE HERBERTAll our pompe the earth covers.
More George Herbert Quotes
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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All that shakes falles not.
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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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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Weening is not measure.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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