Trust not one night’s ice.
GEORGE HERBERTTo a good spender God is the Treasurer.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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The eye will have his part.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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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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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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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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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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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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No Alchymy to saving.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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