While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
GEORGE HERBERTThe way is an ill neighbour.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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