Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
GEORGE HERBERTTrust not one night’s ice.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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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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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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