By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
GEORGE HERBERTLawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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