The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
GEORGE HERBERTFrenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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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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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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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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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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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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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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