A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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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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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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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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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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