George Herbert Short Quotes

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Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

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None knows the weight of another's burthen.

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

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Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

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Good words are worth much, and cost little.

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The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

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Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.

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Life is half spent before we know what it is.

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He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

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Man stole the fruit, but I must climb the tree.

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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

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

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Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

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Half the world knows not how the other half lives.

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When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him drink.

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

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Man is one world, and hath
Another to attend him.

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

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

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Like summer friends,
Flies of estate and sunneshine.

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By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured.

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Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing
My God and King.

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Lovely enchanting language, sugar-cane,
Honey of roses!

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Marry your son when you will; your daughter when you can.

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

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It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.

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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

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It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.

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Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

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