Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
GEORGE HERBERTThe Mr. absent, and the house dead.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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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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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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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 praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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