A child correct behind and not before.
GEORGE HERBERTWhether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Weening is not measure.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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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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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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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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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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