Every one fastens where there is gaine.
GEORGE HERBERTWhere you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Prettiness dies first.
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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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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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