In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
GEORGE HERBERTMusic helps not the toothache.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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