Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
GEORGE HERBERTIt’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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He that burnes most shines most.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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