The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
More George Herbert Quotes
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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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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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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