To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
GEORGE HERBERTA good pay-master starts not at assurances.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A little labour, much health.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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All that shakes falles not.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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