We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
GEORGE HERBERTEstate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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