By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
GEORGE HERBERTA fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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No Alchymy to saving.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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