Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
GEORGE HERBERTWe live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
More George Herbert Quotes
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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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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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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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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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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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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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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