Anothers bread costs deare.
GEORGE HERBERTWho eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Weening is not measure.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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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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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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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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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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