Good swimmers at length are drowned.
GEORGE HERBERTI was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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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 a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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