In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
GEORGE HERBERTThe wife is the key of the house.
More George Herbert Quotes
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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The offender never pardons.
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He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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Where there is peace, God is.
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He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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