Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He that burnes most shines most.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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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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Never was strumpet faire.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Prettiness dies first.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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The eye will have his part.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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