Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
GEORGE HERBERTPraise the Sea, but keepe on land.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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