The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
GEORGE HERBERTBetter never begin than never make an end.
More George Herbert Quotes
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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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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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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All that shakes falles not.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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