The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
GEORGE HERBERTIn a long journey straw waighs.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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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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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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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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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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