Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
GEORGE HERBERTTrust not one night’s ice.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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A little labour, much health.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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