Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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It’s not good fishing before the net.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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An old dog barks not in vain.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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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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