The eye will have his part.
GEORGE HERBERTOnly a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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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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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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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 life of man is a winter way.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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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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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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All that shakes falles not.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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