More from George Herbert

  1. The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 wis…
  4. Pension never enriched young man.
  5. He that lies with dogs, riseth with fleas.
  6. Living well is the best revenge.
  7. When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.
  8. One enemy is too much.

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