Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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More George Herbert Quotes
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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He that chastens one, chastens 20.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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