Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
GEORGE HERBERTThe cholerick man never wants woe.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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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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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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