Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
GEORGE HERBERTTo gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Prettiness dies first.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Weening is not measure.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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