That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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A little labour, much health.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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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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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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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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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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