Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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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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Trust not one night’s ice.
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All that shakes falles not.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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