A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
GEORGE HERBERTThe honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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 discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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The eye will have his part.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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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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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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