Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
GEORGE HERBERTLittle pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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All that shakes falles not.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
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