You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
GEORGE HERBERTThat flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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