The scalded head feares cold water.
GEORGE HERBERTDrink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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