A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
GEORGE HERBERTNone knows the weight of another’s burden.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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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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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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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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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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