The wife is the key of the house.
GEORGE HERBERTIf folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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Music helps not the toothache.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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