In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
GEORGE HERBERTThere is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
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Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
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Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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