In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
GEORGE HERBERTBetter speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
More George Herbert Quotes
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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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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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Where there is peace, God is.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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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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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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A little labour, much health.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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