Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
GEORGE HERBERTReason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Weening is not measure.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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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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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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