The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
GEORGE HERBERTA married man turns his staffe into a stake.
More George Herbert Quotes
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No Alchymy to saving.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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