He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
GEORGE HERBERTTo a good spender God is the Treasurer.
More George Herbert Quotes
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
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The eye will have his part.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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