To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
GEORGE HERBERTBetter never begin than never make an end.
More George Herbert Quotes
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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