In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
GEORGE HERBERTWhen a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
More George Herbert Quotes
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Heresie is the school of pride.
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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A penny spar’d is twice got.
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The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg’d, make thy accounts agree.
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Good workemen are seldome rich.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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