A penny spar’d is twice got.
GEORGE HERBERTThe eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
More George Herbert Quotes
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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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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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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