It’s not good fishing before the net.
GEORGE HERBERTWe live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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A little labour, much health.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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The wife is the key of the house.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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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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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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