Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
GEORGE HERBERTShips feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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All that shakes falles not.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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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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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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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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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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