A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
GEORGE HERBERTIt’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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