When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
GEORGE HERBERTTo seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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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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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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A little labour, much health.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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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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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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