The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
GEORGE HERBERTA feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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