We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
GEORGE HERBERTThe way is an ill neighbour.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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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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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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