Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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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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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Weening is not measure.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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