To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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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The eye will have his part.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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Prettiness dies first.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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