Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
GEORGE HERBERTIn good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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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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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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A little labour, much health.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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