Prettiness dies first.
GEORGE HERBERTThe wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
More George Herbert Quotes
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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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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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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