Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
GEORGE HERBERTThere is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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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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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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