In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
GEORGE HERBERTTrust not one night’s ice.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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A little labour, much health.
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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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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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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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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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