The way is an ill neighbour.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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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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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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