Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
GEORGE HERBERTWhere there is peace, God is.
More George Herbert Quotes
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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