Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
GEORGE HERBERTWe live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
More George Herbert Quotes
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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All that shakes falles not.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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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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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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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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