The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Prettiness dies first.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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