Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
GEORGE HERBERTYou cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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The eye will have his part.
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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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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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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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