When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that chastens one, chastens 20.
More George Herbert Quotes
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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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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