A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
GEORGE HERBERTIn the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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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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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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A little labour, much health.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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