Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
GEORGE HERBERTThe reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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