In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
GEORGE HERBERTThe Mr. absent, and the house dead.
More George Herbert Quotes
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
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The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
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