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80 George Herbert Quotes

George Herbert shares plain-spoken, practical proverbs about health, effort and consequences.

George Herbert quotes

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  40. Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.

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  41. Ill ware is never cheap. Pleasing ware is half sold.

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  42. When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him drink.

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  43. Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

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  44. Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.

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  45. Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

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  46. Good words are worth much, and cost little.

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  47. Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

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  48. Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

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  49. Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

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  50. Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

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  51. The best mirror is an old friend.

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  52. When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

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  53. He that lies with dogs, riseth with fleas.

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  54. He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich, or wise.

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  55. The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

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  56. Trust not one night's ice.

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  57. For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

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  58. Pension never enriched young man.

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  59. Living well is the best revenge.

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  60. One enemy is too much.

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  61. Thursday come, and the week is gone.

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  62. Time is the rider that breaks youth.

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  63. Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.

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  64. One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

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  65. Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.

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  66. One sword keeps another in the sheath.

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  67. God's mill grinds slow, but sure.

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  68. He that lends, gives.

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  69. Words are women, deeds are men.

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  70. Poverty is no sin.

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  71. None knows the weight of another's burden.

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  72. One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

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  73. He hath no leisure who useth it not.

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  74. Half the world knows not how the other half lives.

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  75. Life is half spent before we know what it is.

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  76. Every mile is two in winter.

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  77. The eye is bigger than the belly.

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  78. His bark is worse than his bite.

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  79. There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

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  80. Woe be to him that reads but one book.

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