It’s not good fishing before the net.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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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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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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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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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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