Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
GEORGE HERBERTPraise the Sea, but keepe on land.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Weening is not measure.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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