Conversation makes one what he is.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that brings good newes knockes hard.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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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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Every one fastens where there is gaine.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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Good is the mora that makes all sure.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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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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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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