In a long journey straw waighs.
GEORGE HERBERTEstate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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