None knows the weight of another’s burden.
GEORGE HERBERTWe do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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He that staies does the businesse.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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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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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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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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Anothers bread costs deare.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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