The life of man is a winter way.
GEORGE HERBERTGood and quickly seldom meet.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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 Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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The eye will have his part.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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