Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that staies does the businesse.
More George Herbert Quotes
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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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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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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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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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All that shakes falles not.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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