There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
GEORGE HERBERTTo a greedy eating horse a short halter.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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All that shakes falles not.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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