Good and quickly seldom meet.
GEORGE HERBERTBy all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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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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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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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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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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