Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
GEORGE HERBERTBrabling Curres never want torne eares.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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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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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Weening is not measure.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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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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