Trust not one night’s ice.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
More George Herbert Quotes
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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Prettiness dies first.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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