Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
GEORGE HERBERTA good pay-master starts not at assurances.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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The offender never pardons.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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