A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
GEORGE HERBERTOf a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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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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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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