Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
GEORGE HERBERTFrenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
More George Herbert Quotes
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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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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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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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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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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He that burnes most shines most.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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