A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
GEORGE HERBERTGood swimmers at length are drowned.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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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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