He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
GEORGE HERBERTHe is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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All that shakes falles not.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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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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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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