France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
GEORGE HERBERTIt’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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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 way is an ill neighbour.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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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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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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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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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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