I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
GEORGE HERBERTWhen a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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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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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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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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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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