The life of man is a winter way.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that will be surety, shall pay.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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The offender never pardons.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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The eye will have his part.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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