The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
GEORGE HERBERTWhen thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
More George Herbert Quotes
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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All that shakes falles not.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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