Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
GEORGE HERBERTThey that are booted are not alwaies ready.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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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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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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