The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
GEORGE HERBERTThe Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Music helps not the toothache.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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All that shakes falles not.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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