Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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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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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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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All that shakes falles not.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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