We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
GEORGE HERBERTIn a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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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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The way is an ill neighbour.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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