By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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The offender never pardons.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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