The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that comes of a hen must scrape.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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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 gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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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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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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