Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
GEORGE HERBERTIn a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
More George Herbert Quotes
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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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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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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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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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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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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