Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
GEORGE HERBERTBetter suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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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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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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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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