Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
GEORGE HERBERTAn old dog barks not in vain.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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