Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
GEORGE HERBERTWhen it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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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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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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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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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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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 that staies does the businesse.
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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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