It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
GEORGE HERBERTPraise the Sea, but keepe on land.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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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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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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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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