The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
GEORGE HERBERTBy no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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The offender never pardons.
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