The cholerick man never wants woe.
GEORGE HERBERTA child correct behind and not before.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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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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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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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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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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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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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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