Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
GEORGE HERBERTThe Mr. absent, and the house dead.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Prettiness dies first.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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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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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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