God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
GEORGE HERBERTSink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
More George Herbert Quotes
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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