Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
GEORGE HERBERTDeceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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Wee know not who lives or dies.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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