Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
GEORGE HERBERTCall me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
More George Herbert Quotes
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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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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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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