Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
GEORGE HERBERTThe Law is not the same at morning and at night.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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All that shakes falles not.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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