Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
GEORGE HERBERTTo gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Weening is not measure.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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The eye will have his part.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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