A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
GEORGE HERBERTWe do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
More George Herbert Quotes
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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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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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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