Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
GEORGE HERBERTHe that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
More George Herbert Quotes
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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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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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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