Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
GEORGE HERBERTThe wife is the key of the house.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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