The offender never pardons.
GEORGE HERBERTThe first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Where there is peace, God is.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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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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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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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.]
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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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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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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