Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
GEORGE HERBERTWe do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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