A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
GEORGE HERBERTNever was strumpet faire.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Prettiness dies first.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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