Punishment is lame, but it comes.
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More quotes from George Herbert
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
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The resolved mind hath no cares.
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The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
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He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
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Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
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There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
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Life is half spent before we know what it is.
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Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
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Punishment is lame, but it comes.
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A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
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He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
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The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Be thrifty, but not covetous.
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The shortest answer is doing.
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The eyes have one language everywhere.
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Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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Love and a cough cannot be hid.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Spend not on hopes.
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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
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Living well is the best revenge.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
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Never was a miser a brave soul.
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Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
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If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him.
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Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
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He hath no leisure who useth it not.
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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
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The offender never pardons.
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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
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War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
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Night is the mother of counsels.
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Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
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One sword keeps another in the sheath.
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Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
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You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
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He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
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