Good swimmers at length are drowned.
GEORGE HERBERTWhether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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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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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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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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