The life of man is a winter way.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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