It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
GEORGE HERBERTHe puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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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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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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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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