When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
GEORGE HERBERTChuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
More George Herbert Quotes
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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The offender never pardons.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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