"The best mirror is an old friend."
"Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. [Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]"
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Source: George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.162
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