Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
GEORGE HERBERTOf all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
More George Herbert Quotes
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Weening is not measure.
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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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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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The eye will have his part.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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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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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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