A child correct behind and not before.
GEORGE HERBERTWhile the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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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 scalded head feares cold water.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Prettiness dies first.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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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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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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