Music helps not the toothache.
GEORGE HERBERTBy the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
More George Herbert Quotes
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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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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The wife is the key of the house.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Weening is not measure.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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