Good swimmers at length are drowned.
GEORGE HERBERTTo a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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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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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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