He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
GEORGE HERBERTOf all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
More George Herbert Quotes
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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