Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
GEORGE HERBERTIn a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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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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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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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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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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The life of man is a winter way.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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