We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
GEORGE HERBERTOf the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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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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Anothers bread costs deare.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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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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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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