The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that comes of a hen must scrape.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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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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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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