Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
GEORGE HERBERTBrabling Curres never want torne eares.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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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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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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A little labour, much health.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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