He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
GEORGE HERBERTA penny spar’d is twice got.
More George Herbert Quotes
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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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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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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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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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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