Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
GEORGE HERBERTThe dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
More George Herbert Quotes
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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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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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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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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