Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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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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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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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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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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