Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
GEORGE HERBERTIn a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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Weening is not measure.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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The offender never pardons.
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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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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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