Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
GEORGE HERBERTEvery one is witty for his owne purpose.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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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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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Prettiness dies first.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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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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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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