Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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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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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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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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