Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
GEORGE HERBERTA penny spar’d is twice got.
More George Herbert Quotes
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To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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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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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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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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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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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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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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