When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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