The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
GEORGE HERBERTThe reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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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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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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