A little labour, much health.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that chastens one, chastens 20.
More George Herbert Quotes
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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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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Music helps not the toothache.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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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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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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A child correct behind and not before.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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