He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
GEORGE HERBERTA discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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