When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
GEORGE HERBERTTo a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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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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Where there is peace, God is.
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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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The wife is the key of the house.
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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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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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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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The offender never pardons.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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