Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
GEORGE HERBERTThere is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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Prettiness dies first.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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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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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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