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.
GEORGE HERBERTTo take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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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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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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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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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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