The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
GEORGE HERBERTWith customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Prettiness dies first.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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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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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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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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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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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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