It’s not good fishing before the net.
GEORGE HERBERTAll our pompe the earth covers.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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All that shakes falles not.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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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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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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