Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
GEORGE HERBERTThe first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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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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All our pompe the earth covers.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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