With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
GEORGE HERBERTIt’s not good fishing before the net.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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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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Trust not one night’s ice.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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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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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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