Trust not one night’s ice.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that comes of a hen must scrape.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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The offender never pardons.
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Weening is not measure.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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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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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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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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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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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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