With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
GEORGE HERBERTReligion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
More George Herbert Quotes
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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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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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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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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