Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
GEORGE HERBERTWhere you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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