In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
GEORGE HERBERTBy no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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The eye will have his part.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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