Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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The offender never pardons.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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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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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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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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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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