Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
GEORGE HERBERTEstate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Prettiness dies first.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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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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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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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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Where there is peace, God is.
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