The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
GEORGE HERBERTWho shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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