The scalded head feares cold water.
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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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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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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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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