Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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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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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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