Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
GEORGE HERBERTOf a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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The offender never pardons.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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