Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
GEORGE HERBERTWee know not who lives or dies.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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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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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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The eye will have his part.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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