You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
GEORGE HERBERTThe Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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A little labour, much health.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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