In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
GEORGE HERBERTYou cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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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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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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The offender never pardons.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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