France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
GEORGE HERBERTLove makes all hard hearts gentle.
More George Herbert Quotes
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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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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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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