A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
GEORGE HERBERTThe scalded head feares cold water.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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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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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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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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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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The eye will have his part.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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