He that staies does the businesse.
GEORGE HERBERTThe eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
More George Herbert Quotes
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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