Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
GEORGE HERBERTWith customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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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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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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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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The way is an ill neighbour.
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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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