The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
GEORGE HERBERTThe life of spies is to know, not bee known.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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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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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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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Weening is not measure.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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