Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
GEORGE HERBERTBrabling Curres never want torne eares.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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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 reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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A child correct behind and not before.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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