They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
GEORGE HERBERTThere is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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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 hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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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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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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