Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
GEORGE HERBERTThe honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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A little labour, much health.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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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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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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