The wife is the key of the house.
GEORGE HERBERTHelpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
More George Herbert Quotes
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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The eye will have his part.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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A little labour, much health.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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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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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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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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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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