The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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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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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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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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All that shakes falles not.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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