Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
GEORGE HERBERTAll that shakes falles not.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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The offender never pardons.
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A little labour, much health.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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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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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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