Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
GEORGE HERBERTIn a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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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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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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