With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
GEORGE HERBERTNone knows the weight of another’s burden.
More George Herbert Quotes
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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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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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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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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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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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.
GEORGE HERBERT