A penny spar’d is twice got.
GEORGE HERBERTThe scalded head feares cold water.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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