In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
GEORGE HERBERTBrabling Curres never want torne eares.
More George Herbert Quotes
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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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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The wife is the key of the house.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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