Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
GEORGE HERBERTOf all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The wife is the key of the house.
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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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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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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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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Weening is not measure.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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All that shakes falles not.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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