You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that goeth farre hath many encounters.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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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 eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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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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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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