In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that is angry at a feast is rude.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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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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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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