True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
GEORGE HERBERTThe reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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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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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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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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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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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.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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All that shakes falles not.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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