To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
GEORGE HERBERTI envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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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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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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All that shakes falles not.
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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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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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