With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
GEORGE HERBERTIt is better to have wings then hornes.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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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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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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