None knows the weight of another’s burden.
GEORGE HERBERTGood workemen are seldome rich.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The life of man is a winter way.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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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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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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