Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
GEORGE HERBERTSlander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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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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He that staies does the businesse.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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A child correct behind and not before.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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