When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
GEORGE HERBERTWe live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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A little labour, much health.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
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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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