It is better to have wings then hornes.
GEORGE HERBERTAll that shakes falles not.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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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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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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The offender never pardons.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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