More from George Herbert

  1. 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.
  2. Living well is the best revenge.
  3. Trust not one night's ice.
  4. One enemy is too much.
  5. The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
  6. Thursday come, and the week is gone.
  7. 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…
  8. Time is the rider that breaks youth.

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